A serious constraint in multilevel inverters is the capacitor voltage-balancing problem. The unbalance of the different DC voltage sources of the five-level Neutral Point Clamping Voltage Source Inverter (NPC-VSI) constituted the major limitation for the use of this power converter. To remedy to this problem, a new control solution to compensate the unbalanced DC voltages for the five-level NPC...

SUMMARY Modular multilevel converter (MMC) type topology is considered an enabling technology for expanding the voltage sourced converter (VSC) applications and thus providing its operational benefits with low switching power loss comparable to that of the conventional thyristor-based line commutated converters. However, due to its inherent topological and consequently control complexity, compu...

The new step-up capacitor grid is connected to the solar photovoltaic (PV) having a voltage balancing converters. It’s suitable for Neutral-Point-clamped (NPC) Multilevel Inverter (MI). To balance DC link effectively we've got use switched capacitors. By using converter, we will enlarge higher levels and also by boosting input are able see upper of without magnetic components. This attribute al...

This paper proposes the use of a Modular Marx Multilevel Converter, as a solution for energy integration between an offshore Wind Farm and the power grid network. The Marx modular multilevel converter is based on the Marx generator, and solves two typical problems in this type of multilevel topologies: modularity and dc capacitor voltage balancing. This paper details the strategy for dc capacit...

optimal sitting and sizing of shunt capacitor banks at the distribution networks for the purpose of power quality improvement is drawn much attention of electric power utilities in the last decades. determining the optimal number, location and sizing of capacitor using bee colony optimization algorithm (bco) is being presented in this paper. the bco algorithm is a new population based meta-heur...

The paper presents three different computational schemes for achieving space vector pulse width modulation, in the control of a multilevel flying capacitor inverter. Each scheme uses the same method of achieving cell-capacitor voltage balancing. Results of realistic simulations are used to compare and contrast these approaches. The timing control of the inverter switches and output performance ...

For medium-voltage power electronic applications, multilevel converters have become a popular option. While conventional twolevel converters utilize a direct series connection of switches to meet medium-voltage requirements, multilevel converters allow a higher voltage handling capability with reduced harmonic distortion and lower switching power losses. One of the most important requirements i...

The main aim of this project is ,this topology enables UPQC to have a reduced dc-link voltage without compromising its compensation capability. Three-phase, four-wire unified Power Quality (UPQC) to improve power quality. The UPQC is realized by the integration of series and shunt active power filters (APF) sharing a common dc bus capacitor. The realization of shunt APF is carried out using a t...

Multilevel converters have gained popularity in both medium voltage and low voltage applications. To find out the connections between various multilevel voltage source converter topologies and to reveal how to obtain new topologies, this paper has presented four methods to derive multilevel converter topologies. Many existing topologies as well as new topologies can be derived with the methods ...