1. Hybrid Seven-Level Cascaded Active Neutral-Point-Clamped-Based Multilevel Converter Under SHE-PWM.
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Pulikanti, Sridhar R., Konstantinou, Georgios, and Agelidis, Vassilios G.
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CONVERTERS (Electronics) , *ELECTRIC power conversion , *TOPOLOGY , *PROTOTYPE research , *ELECTRIC power conversion harmonics - Abstract
This paper presents the hybrid seven-level cascaded active neutral-point-clamped (ANPC)-based multilevel converter. The converter topology is the cascaded connection of a three-level ANPC converter and an H-bridge per phase. The voltage of the H-bridge is actively maintained to the required level through selection of the switching states of the converter. The topology is operated under selective harmonic elimination pulsewidth modulation (SHE-PWM), maintaining the switching frequency of the converter to a minimum. The operating principles, voltage balancing methods, and limitations of the converter are analyzed together with extensive simulation results of the topology. Experimental results from a low-power laboratory prototype are presented that verify the operation of the hybrid converter under SHE-PWM. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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