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The Series Bridge Converter (SBC): Design of a compact modular multilevel converter for grid applications

Amankwah, Emmanuel K.; Costabeber, Alessando; Watson, Alan; Trainer, David; Jasim, Omar; Chivite-Zabalza, Javier; Clare, Jon

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Emmanuel K. Amankwah

Alessando Costabeber

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ALAN WATSON ALAN.WATSON@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
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David Trainer

Omar Jasim

Javier Chivite-Zabalza

Jon Clare



Abstract

This paper presents a novel hybrid modular multilevel voltage source converter suitable for grid applications. The proposed converter retains the advantages of other modular multilevel topologies and can be made more compact making it attractive for offshore stations and other footprint critical applications like city infeeds. In this paper, the basic operating principle and design criteria for the converter implementation are presented. The submodule capacitor requirements which have significant influence on the size of a converter station are also evaluated and compared to the MMC.
The performance of the converter is supported by simulation results from a representative medium voltage scaled demonstrator.

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Amankwah, E. K., Costabeber, A., Watson, A., Trainer, D., Jasim, O., Chivite-Zabalza, J., & Clare, J. (2016). The Series Bridge Converter (SBC): Design of a compact modular multilevel converter for grid applications. In IECON 2016 Proceedings - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2588-2593). https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2016.7793197

Conference Name 42nd Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2016)
Conference Location Florence, Italy
Start Date Oct 23, 2016
End Date Oct 26, 2016
Acceptance Date Jun 28, 2016
Online Publication Date Dec 22, 2016
Publication Date 2016
Deposit Date Oct 14, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 2588-2593
Book Title IECON 2016 Proceedings - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
ISBN 978-1-5090-3475-8
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2016.7793197
Keywords MMC, Converter design, capacitor sizing, Offshore, Compact HVDC VSC systems
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/821926
Publisher URL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7793197/
Related Public URLs http://www.iecon2016.org/
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doi: 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793197

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