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Balancing control of DC capacitor voltage for cascaded H-bridge STATCOM based on voltage redundant states

  • Yinghong Hu*
  • , Jiajia Ren
  • , Ke Shen
  • , Jianze Wang
  • , Yanchao Ji
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The impact of the current and switch state of cascaded STATCOM on DC-side voltage is analyzed. When converter current I>0 and module output voltage U>0, DC capacitor is charged and its voltage rises; when I>0 and U<0, DC capacitor is discharged and its voltage drops; when I<0, the situation is opposite. A DC voltage balancing strategy based on swap redundant switching states is thus proposed, which changes the switch state of the module with high DC voltage into the switch state causing voltage dropping while changes the switch state of the module with low DC voltage into the switch state causing voltage rising. The charge/discharge time of capacitor is thus changed and the DC-side voltage balance is maintained. The proposed control strategy is simple and easy to realize and its effectiveness is verified by simulative results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)33-37
Number of pages5
JournalDianli Zidonghua Shebei/Electric Power Automation Equipment
Volume31
Issue number11
StatePublished - Nov 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cascaded multilevel
  • DC capacitor voltage
  • Electric inverters
  • Redundancy
  • STATCOM
  • Voltage control

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