Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid

This paper presents a new control strategy for a high performance hybrid cascaded H-Bridge HB multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter Stage APFS. Unequal DC voltage sources are used to energise the converter's HBs. This offers increased number of voltage levels using few...

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Main Authors: Rashed, Mohamed, Klumpner, Christian, Asher, Greg
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34826/
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author Rashed, Mohamed
Klumpner, Christian
Asher, Greg
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description This paper presents a new control strategy for a high performance hybrid cascaded H-Bridge HB multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter Stage APFS. Unequal DC voltage sources are used to energise the converter's HBs. This offers increased number of voltage levels using fewer number of series connected HBs. Simple hybrid stair-case/SVM modulation strategy is proposed to synthesise the converter output voltage waveforms and to guarantee even sharing of power between the converter's HBs. Novel capacitor voltage balancing controller is proposed and designed to guarantee decouple control of the APFS active power during the capacitors' charging and discharging modes without compromising the quality of the converter output voltage. The proposed converter is investigated under different operating conditions and the results show excellent dynamic and steady state performance.
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spelling nottingham-348262020-05-04T16:29:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34826/ Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid Rashed, Mohamed Klumpner, Christian Asher, Greg This paper presents a new control strategy for a high performance hybrid cascaded H-Bridge HB multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter Stage APFS. Unequal DC voltage sources are used to energise the converter's HBs. This offers increased number of voltage levels using fewer number of series connected HBs. Simple hybrid stair-case/SVM modulation strategy is proposed to synthesise the converter output voltage waveforms and to guarantee even sharing of power between the converter's HBs. Novel capacitor voltage balancing controller is proposed and designed to guarantee decouple control of the APFS active power during the capacitors' charging and discharging modes without compromising the quality of the converter output voltage. The proposed converter is investigated under different operating conditions and the results show excellent dynamic and steady state performance. 2010-06-21 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Rashed, Mohamed, Klumpner, Christian and Asher, Greg (2010) Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid. In: 2010 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), 21-24 Jun 2010, Sapporo, Japan. Multilevel Converters Energy Storage Active Power Filter SVM Harmonics Compensation http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5543461 10.1109/IPEC.2010.5543461 10.1109/IPEC.2010.5543461 10.1109/IPEC.2010.5543461
spellingShingle Multilevel Converters
Energy Storage
Active Power Filter
SVM
Harmonics Compensation
Rashed, Mohamed
Klumpner, Christian
Asher, Greg
Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
title Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
title_full Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
title_fullStr Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
title_full_unstemmed Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
title_short Hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series Active Power Filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
title_sort hybrid cascaded multilevel converter with integrated series active power filter for interfacing energy storage system to medium voltage grid
topic Multilevel Converters
Energy Storage
Active Power Filter
SVM
Harmonics Compensation
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