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Fulfillment of Some Important Voltage Harmonic Standards in a FPGA Controlled CHB Multilevel Inverter Utilizing Improved SHM-PAM Technique
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications IEEE Trans. on Ind. Applicat. Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on. 59(5):6051-6067 Jan, 2023
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Harmonic analysis
Voltage
Switches
Standards
Codes
IEC Standards
Modulation
Cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverter (MLI)
grid code standards
half-wave symmetry (HWS)
harmonic analysis
power quality
selective harmonic minimization-pulse amplitude modulation (SHM-PAM)
Language
ISSN
0093-9994
1939-9367
Abstract
In the area of medium voltage and high power multilevel inverter applications, good quality power output can be achieved by minimizing lower-order harmonic components, and the SHM-PAM scheme produces best results in this context. The minimization of selective lower-order harmonics rather than their complete elimination makes it more useful to comply certain grid code standard. This article proposes an improved SHM-PAM scheme for a 3-phase 7-level CHB-MLI utilizing three new half-wave (HW) symmetry waveforms to comply with six well-known grid code standards, namely CIGRE WG 36-05, EN 50160, NRS 048-2, IEC 61000-2-12, IEC 61000-3-6, and ER G5/4. The optimal switching transients and necessary dc-link voltages have been determined for controlling the CHB MLI using the recently reported dragonfly algorithm (DA). The efficacy of the reported scheme is evaluated satisfactorily by simulation study and hardware investigation on a CHB-MLI laboratory prototype. The power loss analysis of the CHB inverter for the proposed schemes is evaluated for the entire power factor range. Additionally, to demonstrate the suggested method's superiority in terms of necessary commutation angles for grid code fulfilment, a comparative study has been carried out with a number of pre-existing modulation-schemes.