1. Hybrid modulation strategy for eliminating low-frequency NP voltage oscillations in NPC using redistribution of NTV duty ratios.
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Narendrababu, A. and Agarwal, Pramod
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ELECTRIC potential ,ALGORITHMS ,SWITCHING circuits ,ELECTRONIC modulation ,COMPUTATIONAL complexity - Abstract
Neutral point (NP) clamped (NPC) inverters produce low-frequency NP voltage oscillations when modulated with nearest three-vector (NTV) methods for certain loading conditions. Non-NTV modulations can address these oscillations at the expense of increased switching frequency, output voltage distortion and complexity. This study presents a new generalised algorithm to implement hybrid modulation strategies which can also eliminate NP voltage oscillations using a combination of the aforementioned methods. The proposed algorithm avoids abrupt changeover between the two modulations and ensures minimum contribution of non-NTV operation and hence its drawbacks. Moreover, the algorithm is computationally efficient compared with its counterparts, since it only uses redistributed NTV duty ratios to generate NTV and non-NTV modulations instead of using two separate complex algorithms which result in increased computational burden. A non-NTV method called selected three-vector (STV) modulation is chosen to perform the detailed analysis of above proposed algorithm for hybrid NTV-STV modulation. Additionally, a simplified STV (SSTV) is derived to develop a new hybrid NTV-SSTV modulation strategy which further reduces losses and complexity compared with the hybrid NTV-STV modulation, without affecting the performance of NPC. The proposed algorithm and the derived hybrid modulation strategy are validated using simulation and experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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