Eliminated common-mode voltage pulsewidth modulation to reduce output current ripple for multilevel inverters

The paper presents an analysis on the output current ripple in zero common-mode voltage (ZCMV) PWM control of multilevel inverters. The modulation strategy for common-mode voltage (CMV) elimination in multilevel inverters is based on the "three zero common-mode vectors" principle. The spac...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on power electronics 2016-08, Vol.31 (8), p.5952-5966
Main Authors: Tam-Khanh Tu Nguyen, Nho-Van Nguyen, Prasad, Nadipuram R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AC motors
Common-mode voltage
Current-ripple
Electric currents
Electric potential
Harmonic distortion
Inverters
Mathematical analysis
Multilevel Inverter
Power supply
Pulse duration modulation
Pulse width modulation
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
PWM inverters
Ripples
Simulation
Switches
Switching
Switching loss
Vectors (mathematics)
Voltage
Voltage control
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Summary:The paper presents an analysis on the output current ripple in zero common-mode voltage (ZCMV) PWM control of multilevel inverters. The modulation strategy for common-mode voltage (CMV) elimination in multilevel inverters is based on the "three zero common-mode vectors" principle. The space vector diagram, which consists of vectors of ZCMV, is fully explored by properly depicting the base voltage vectors and their corresponding active switching vectors. The switching patterns are limited to those of three switching states each of which is symmetrically distributed. Based on the PWM process simplified to that of a two-level inverter with three allowable switching states and the degree of freedom existing in the switching states arrangement, a novel carrier-based pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) method with optimized output current ripple is proposed. Compared to the existing PWM methods which utilize the same kind of switching patterns, the proposed PWM method has reduced considerably the rms current ripple and total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output current in a wide region of the modulation index. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by both simulation and experimental results.
ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2015.2489560