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Back-To-back hybrid modular multilevel converters for ac motor drive

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Recently, modular multilevel converters (MMC) have attracted extensive research interest in the field of HVDC and motor drives. However in motor drives, it appears that the inherent problem of the fluctuation of capacitor voltage particularly at low frequencies limits its further application. This paper proposes a new back-To-back hybrid MMCs topology, of which one MMC is directly connected to the grid and another MMC that controlled to drive an AC motor is connected to the previous one with a DC bus. This paper proposes the corresponding control strategies to drive the motor in wide speed range with basically constant fluctuation of capacitor voltage under constant-load operation at the same time. The grid-side MMC is controlled to generate constant DC current to the DC bus while the motor-side MMC is regulated to generate a constant AC output current to maintain the load torque. The effectiveness of the topology and its control strategies are verified by Matlab/Simulink.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1822-1827
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538611272
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 29 Oct 20171 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Volume2017-January

Conference

Conference43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period29/10/171/11/17

Keywords

  • Modular multilevel converter
  • capacitor voltage fluctuation
  • motor drive

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