Full SiC Version of the EDA5 Inverter

Chowdhury, Shajjad; Gurpinar, Emre; Castellazzi, Alberto

Abstract

Recently, a novel hybrid multilevel inverter topology, the EDA5, was presented. The novel inverter topology comprises of two floating capacitors and 16 active switches to achieve five-level output voltage waveform and achieves higher efficiency at low-modulation index compared to a five-level Active Neural Point Clamped (5L-ANPC) converter. In this work, a full SiC MOSFET version of the inverter is presented, using commercially available 1200V rated devices. A balanced mix of simulation and experimental results are presented to point out the salient features of the topology. The topology is compared with 5L-ANPC inverter in simulation, and experimentally demonstrated up to 12kW output power with 1kV DC link voltage.

Citation

Chowdhury, S., Gurpinar, E., & Castellazzi, A. (2017). Full SiC Version of the EDA5 Inverter. https://doi.org/10.1109/IFEEC.2017.7992072

• Conference Name: 2017 IEEE 3rd International Future Energy Electronics Conference and ECCE Asia (IFEEC 2017 ECCE Asia)
• Start Date: Jun 3, 2017
• End Date: Jun 7, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Dec 30, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Publication Date: Jun 5, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 22, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 5, 2017
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IFEEC.2017.7992072
• Keywords: SiC MOSFETs; multilevel converter; hybrid single phase converter
• Public URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/40694
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