New Reduced Asymmetric Basic Module Multilevel Converters for Cascaded Configurations

Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad Ali; Sarbanzadeh, Maryam; Rivera, Marco; Wheeler, Patrick

Abstract

Requiring a high number of power switches and their rating are the main limitations of multilevel converters in medium-voltage applications. The main objective of this paper is, introduce a reduced asymmetric basic module (RABM) for cascaded multilevel converters that require a less number of power switches and a lower total blocking voltage value in competition with other multilevel converter topologies. The proposed module comprises eight half-bridge converters that are connected in different ways to generate 63-level. The comparison results among the proposed module and other multilevel converters show that proposed module can generate a large number of levels with keeping constant the number of power switches. The simulation outcomes confirm the performance of the proposed module in both symmetric and asymmetric operation modes. Index Terms-basic module; reduced multilevel; cascaded topology.

Citation

Hosseinzadeh, M. A., Sarbanzadeh, M., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. (2019, June). New Reduced Asymmetric Basic Module Multilevel Converters for Cascaded Configurations. Presented at 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
• Start Date: Jun 12, 2019
• End Date: Jun 14, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Apr 3, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Aug 1, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-06
• Deposit Date: Oct 10, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 14, 2019
• Pages: 2653-2658
• Series ISSN: 2163-5145
• Book Title: Proceedings 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics
• ISBN: 978-1-7281-3667-7
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2019.8781382
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• Publisher URL: http://isie2019.env.tsinghua.edu.cn/#home
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• Contract Date: Oct 10, 2019