Title:
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Voltage-balancing method using phase-shifted PWM for the flying capacitor multilevel converter
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Author:
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Ghias, Amer M.Y.M.; Pou Félix, Josep; Ciobotaru, Mihai; Agelidis, Vassilios
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. TIEG - Terrassa Industrial Electronics Group |
Abstract:
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Multilevel flying capacitor (FC) converters provide natural capacitor voltage balance under phase-shifted pulse width modulation (PS-PWM). However, natural balancing may not be robust enough to maintain the voltages at the reference values, especially under certain transient conditions. Furthermore, natural balancing dynamics depend on the load and it may be very slow in some practical applications. Therefore, a more robust balancing mechanism of maintaining the FC voltages at the desired values is required. This paper proposes a new closed-loop voltage-balancing method for the multilevel FC converters using PS-PWM. The proposed method balances the voltages of the FCs by modifying the duty cycle of each switch of the FC converter using a proportional controller. The crossed effect between FC currents and duty cycles is considered and is used for optimal FC voltage balancing. Simulation and experimental results verify that the proposed voltage-balancing method is very robust to different operating conditions, such as load transients, linear/nonlinear and unbalanced loads |
Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
Subject(s):
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-Rotary converters -Modulation (Electronics) -Capacitors -Capacitor voltage balancing -flying capacitor (FC) converter -multilevel converter -phase-shifted pulse width modulation (PS-PWM) -Reguladors de voltatge -Convertidors rotatius -Modulació (Electrònica) |
Rights:
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Document type:
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Article - Published version Article |
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