Generalized Multicarrier PWM Technique for Two-Level Voltage Source Inverters

Abraham Marquez Alcaide; Vito Giuseppe Monopoli; Eduardo Zafra; Giampaolo Buticchi; Jose I. Leon; Sergio Vazquez; Marco Liserre; Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo

doi:10.1109/TIE.2022.3190872

Generalized Multicarrier PWM Technique for Two-Level Voltage Source Inverters

Abraham Marquez Alcaide, Vito Giuseppe Monopoli, Eduardo Zafra, Giampaolo Buticchi, Jose I. Leon, Sergio Vazquez, Marco Liserre, Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo

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Abstract

Two-level voltage source inverters are the mainstream solution for many power applications. The conventional modulation method of such inverters is the single-carrier pulsewidth modulation (PWM) technique. In this article, the usage of a generalized PWM method with three independent carriers is analyzed. The carrier phase-displacement angles are evaluated in order to reduce the common-mode voltage (CMV) total harmonic distortion (THD), the dc-link capacitor current THD, and the phase currents THD. These targets are difficult to be met at the same time and a cost function is deployed in order to look for a suitable solution that develops a tradeoff between all the targets. The proposed method has been tested in a laboratory prototype demonstrating its superior performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4345-4355
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume	70
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2022.3190872
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2023

Keywords

Harmonic analysis
multilevel converters
pulsewidth modulation (PWM)

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Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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