Efficient modulation technique for a four-leg fault-tolerant neutral-point-clamped inverter

Salvador Ceballos; Josep Pou; Jordi Zaragoza; Jose Luis Martin; Eider Robles; Igor Gabiola

doi:10.1109/IECON.2006.348023

Efficient modulation technique for a four-leg fault-tolerant neutral-point-clamped inverter

Salvador Ceballos^*
, Josep Pou
, Jordi Zaragoza
, Jose Luis Martin
, Eider Robles
, Igor Gabiola

^*Corresponding author for this work

Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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Abstract

This paper presents a new low-loss modulation technique for the hybrid three-level four-leg converter. The total losses of the converter are reduced on about 18% in average compared to the standard three-leg neutral-point-clamped converter. Furthermore, the low-frequency voltage oscillation in the neutral-point is completely cancelled, and maximum benefit of the dc-link voltage is obtained. All these facts, together with the fault-tolerant ability due to the fourth leg, make this topology very interesting for applications such as wind generation, in which it is important to maximize efficiency and reliability. Some experimental results confirm good performance of the proposed modulation technique.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics
Pages	2090-2095
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2006.348023
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics - Paris, France Duration: 6 Nov 2006 → 10 Nov 2006

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Name	IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

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Conference	IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	6/11/06 → 10/11/06

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Keywords

Low losses
Multilevel converter
Neutral-point-clamped (NPC) converter
Reliability
Voltage oscillation

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Ceballos, S., Pou, J., Zaragoza, J., Martin, J. L., Robles, E., & Gabiola, I. (2006). Efficient modulation technique for a four-leg fault-tolerant neutral-point-clamped inverter. In IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics (pp. 2090-2095). Article 4153341 (IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)). https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2006.348023

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Ceballos, S, Pou, J, Zaragoza, J, Martin, JL, Robles, E & Gabiola, I 2006, Efficient modulation technique for a four-leg fault-tolerant neutral-point-clamped inverter. in IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics., 4153341, IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference), pp. 2090-2095, IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics, Paris, France, 6/11/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2006.348023

Efficient modulation technique for a four-leg fault-tolerant neutral-point-clamped inverter. / Ceballos, Salvador; Pou, Josep; Zaragoza, Jordi et al.
IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics. 2006. p. 2090-2095 4153341 (IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)).

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