Mixed cells modular multilevel converter

G. P. Adam; K. H. Ahmed; B. W. Williams

doi:10.1109/ISIE.2014.6864817

Mixed cells modular multilevel converter

G. P. Adam, K. H. Ahmed, B. W. Williams

University of Strathclyde

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Abstract

This paper uses a scaled down version of the mixed cells modular multilevel converter (MMC) to discuss its modulation and capacitor voltage balancing method, and investigates its AC and DC fault ride-Through capability. It has been found that the mixed MMC is resilient to both AC and DC network faults, which are necessary for next generations of highly meshed multi-Terminal HVDC grids. The power losses comparison conducted in this paper has shown that the mixed cells MMC and three-level cells MMC achieve DC fault reverse blocking capability at reduced on-state losses than full-bridge MMC and alternative arm MMC.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1390-1395
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781479923991, 9781479924004
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2014.6864817
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014
Event	2014 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2014 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 1 Jun 2014 → 4 Jun 2014

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Conference	2014 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2014
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Istanbul
Period	1/06/14 → 4/06/14

Keywords

DC fault reverse blocking capability
high-voltage DC transmission systems
hybrid cascaded multilevel converter
modular multilevel converter

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Adam, GP, Ahmed, KH & Williams, BW 2014, Mixed cells modular multilevel converter. in 2014 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)., 6864817, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1390-1395, 2014 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 1/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2014.6864817

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