@inproceedings{99d47ff0953d4482b10f6afa11577c48,
title = "A novel SVPWM-Based switching algorithm for MMC for high power applications",
abstract = "The emerging Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is considered as one of the promising topologies for high power application. The balancing of the capacitor voltage of the MMC Submodules (SMs) plays a critical role for proper operation of MMC. At low switching frequency the balancing of capacitor voltages of MMC becomes a challenging task. This paper proposes a balancing approach based on space vector PWM (SVPWM) switched at the fundamental frequency. The proposed method uses only one SVPWM to generate the switching vectors for the upper arm of the MMC. The switching vectors of the lower arm are obtained by finding the complement of the upper arm switching vectors, which in turn eliminates the requirement of using another SVPWM for the lower arm. To verify the proposed method a simulation of MMC with half-bridge submodules (SMs) was carried out in MATLAB/SIMULINK/SIMPOWER. The simulation results demonstrate the capability of the proposed strategy in balancing the SMs capacitors voltages even when the MMC is switched at fundamental frequency.",
author = "Bashir, {Safia B.} and Beig, {Abdul R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016 ; Conference date: 16-10-2016 Through 19-10-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1109/MWSCAS.2016.7870123",
language = "British English",
series = "Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE 59th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016",
address = "United States",
}