The multilevel cascaded converters are extensively applied for high-voltage and high-power applications, which are considered as the most favorable topologies for the high power ac-drives and the high-voltage DC transmission (HVDC) systems using the voltage source converters (VSCs). This paper presents the dc capacitor balancing and effective current regulation methodologies for the multilevel ...

This paper investigates the influence of a constant carrier phase shift on DC-link capacitor harmonic current cascaded converters used in fuel-cell and mild-hybrid electric vehicles. In these applications, DC-DC converter can be adopted between battery motor drive inverter structure, where two share same DC-link. Since such system represents critical component, optimization operation to limit s...

This paper discusses operation characteristics of discontinuous current mode (DCM) for an ac-dc isolated converter on-board battery chargers electric vehicles. The discussed in this consists a front-end diode- bridge rectifier, active energy buffer, and dual-active-bridge dc-dc converter. buffer circuit absorbs the power pulsation from single-phase ac line into small-rated capacitor, thus, make...

In this paper, a statcom without any energy storage devices is proposed to compensate network voltage during disturbances. This statcom utilizes a matrix converter in its topology which eliminates the DC-link capacitor of conventional statcom. The modulation method for matrix converter which is used in this paper is space vector modulation. There are some methods to improve power quality for se...

For battery-powered electronic products, one way to extend battery life is to use a versatile step-up/step-down DC-DC converter. A new versatile step-up/step-down switched-capacitor-based converter structure is proposed, and its efficiency is analyzed. In the step-down case, the efficiency is the same as, or even better than the efficiency of linear regulators. key words: DC-DC converter, switc...

In power distribution network, distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) is used for enhancing power quality. This paper investigates the application of DSTATCOM with non-stiff source connected to distribution network to enhance power quality. The model discussed in this paper is designed to have reduced DC-link voltage rating without compromising compensation capability when non-linear loads ...

In this paper a new topology for Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) with high frequency link is proposed. This topology is able to compensate different types of voltage disturbances such as voltage sag, voltage swell and voltage harmonics. According to the obtained equations, this topology operates as a controllable current source to charge the series capacitor. Due to using High Frequency Transfor...

To provide transmission-line voltage support, a static compensator (STATCOM) offers the optimal solution in terms of price, reliability, and dynamic performance. Simpler layout for switches, reduced component count and smaller dc-link capacitor values are the attractive features of the proposed topology over the diode clamped and cascaded multilevel converter. Two dc-link voltage sources with v...