Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2009
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2008.2006678
Abstract
This paper presents a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter that can be implemented using only a single dc power source and capacitors. Standard cascaded multilevel inverters require n dc sources for 2n + 1 levels. Without requiring transformers, the scheme proposed here allows the use of a single dc power source (e.g., a battery or a fuel cell stack) with the remaining n − 1 dc sources being capacitors, which is referred to as hybrid cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (HCMLI) in this paper. It is shown that the inverter can simultaneously maintain the dc voltage level of the capacitors and choose a fundamental frequency switching pattern to produce a nearly sinusoidal output. HCMLI using only a single dc source for each phase is promising for high-power motor drive applications as it significantly decreases the number of required dc power supplies, provides high-quality output power due to its high number of output levels, and results in high conversion efficiency and low thermal stress as it uses a fundamental frequency switching scheme. This paper mainly discusses control of seven-level HCMLI with fundamental frequency switching control and how its modulation index range can be extended using triplen harmonic compensation.
Copyright Statement
This document was originally published by IEEE in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Copyright restrictions may apply. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2006678
Publication Information
Du, Zhong; Tolbert, Leon M.; Ozpineci, Burak; and Chiasson, John N.. (2009). "Fundamental Frequency Switching Strategies of a Seven-Level Hybrid Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 25-33.