Journal of Power Electronics

The Korean Institute of Power Electronics (전력전자학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

A Novel Pulse-Width and Amplitude Modulation (PWAM) Control Strategy for Power Converters

  • Ghoreishy, Hoda (Dept. of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University) ;
  • Varjani, Ali Yazdian (Dept. of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University) ;
  • Farhangi, Shahrokh (Dept. of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Tehran University) ;
  • Mohamadian, Mustafa (Dept. of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University)
  • Received : 2009.11.17
  • Published : 2010.07.20
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

Typical power electronic converters employ only pulse width modulation (PWM) to generate specific switching patterns. In this paper, a novel control strategy combining both pulse-width and amplitude modulation strategies (PWAM) has been proposed for power converters. The Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM), used in communication systems, has been applied to power electronic converters. This increases the degrees of freedom in eliminating or mitigating harmonics when compared to the conventional PWM strategies. The role of PAM in the novel PWAM strategy is based on the control of the converter's dc sources values. Software implementation of the conventional PWM and the PWAM control strategies has been applied to a five-level inverter for mitigating selective harmonics. Results show the superiority of the proposed strategy from the THD point of view along with a reduction in the inverter power dissipation.

Keywords

References

  1. J. Rodriguez, J. S. Lai, and F. Z. Peng, "Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls and applications," IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp.724-738, Aug. 2002. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2002.801052
  2. J. Rodriguez, S. Bernet,B. Wu, J. O. Pont tans S. Kouro, "Multilevel voltage-source-converter topologies for industrial medium-voltage drives," IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp.2930- 2945, Dec. 2007.
  3. V. G. Agelidis, A. I. Balouktsis and C.Cossar, "Multiple sets of solutions for harmonic elimination PWM bipolar waveforms: analysis and experimental verification," IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 415-421, Mar. 2006. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2005.869752
  4. V. G. Agelidis, A. I. Balouktsis and M. S. A. Dahidah, "A five-level symmetrically defined selective harmonic elimination PWM strategy: analysis and experimental validation," IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 19-26, Jan. 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2007.911770
  5. T. J. Liang, R. M. O'Connell and R. G. Hoft, "Inverter harmonic reduction using walsh function harmonic elimination method," IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 971-982, Nov. 1997.
  6. A. J. Watson, P. W. Wheeler and J. Clare, "A complete harmonic elimination approach to DC link voltage balancing for a cascaded multilevel rectifier," IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 2946-2953, Dec. 2007.
  7. J. N. Chiasso, L. M. Tolbert, K. J. McKenzie and Z. Du, "A complete solution to the harmonic elimination problem," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 19, NO. 2, pp. 491-499, Mar. 2004. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2003.823207
  8. E. Guan, P. Song, Manyuan Ye, Bin Wu, "Selective harmonic elimination techniques for multilevel cascaded h-bridge inverters," International Conference on Power Electronics and Drives Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 1441 - 1446, Nov. 2005.
  9. H. Huang, S. Hu and D. Czarkowski, "A novel simplex homotopic fixedpoint algorithm for computation of optimal PWM patterns," in Proc. IEEE Power Electron. Spec. Conf., pp. 1263-1267, 2004.
  10. Khoukha, C. Hachemi and B. E. Madjid, "Multilevel selective harmonic elimination PWM technique in the nine level voltage inverter," International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems, pp. 387 - 392, Nov. 2007.
  11. M. S. A. Dahidah, V. G. Agelidis, "Non-symmetrical selective harmonic elimination PWM techniques: the unipolar waveform," IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1885-1891, Aug. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2007.898299
  12. L. G. Franquelo, J. Napoles, R. C. P. Guisado, J. I. Leon and M. A. Aguirre, "A flexible selective harmonic mitigation technique to meet grid codes in three-level PWM converters," IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 3022-3029, Dec. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2007.907045
  13. V. G. Agelidis, A. Balouktsis and I. Balouktsis, "On attaining multiple solutions of selective harmonic elimination PWM three-level waveforms through function minimization," IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 996-1004, Mar. 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2007.909728
  14. J. Wells, B. M. Nee, P. L. chapman and P. T. Krein, "Selective harmonic control: a general problem formulation and selected solutions," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1337-1345, Nov. 2005. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2005.857541
  15. H. Zhang, K. Liu, M. Braun, and C. C. Chan, "Selective harmonic controlling for three-level high power active front end converter with low switching frequency," in Proc. CES/IEEE 5th Int IPEMC, Vol. 1, Aug. 2006.
  16. Sahali, Y., Fellah, M.K., "Application of the optimal minimization of the THD technique to the multilevel symmetrical inverters and study of its performance in comparison with the selective harmonic elimination technique," International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, SPEEDAM, pp.1342 - 1348, May 2006.
  17. H. Iman-Eini, Sh. Farhangi, M. Khakbazan-Fard and J. L. Schanen, "Analysis and control of a modular MV-to-LV rectifier based on a cascaded multilevel converter," Journal of Power Electronics, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.133-145, Mar. 2009.
  18. R. Gupta, A. Ghosh and A. Joshi, "Generalized converter modulation and loss estimation for grid interface applications," Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, IEEE, 2008.

Cited by

  1. Phase-shifted pulse-width-amplitude modulation for quasi-Z-source cascade multilevel inverter-based photovoltaic power system vol.7, pp.6, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2013.0637
  2. Hybrid cascaded H-bridge inverter with even power distribution and improved total harmonic distortion: analysis and experimental validation vol.5, pp.8, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2012.0111
  3. A novel phase-shifted pulse width amplitude modulation for extended-boost quasi-Z source cascaded multilevel inverter based on photovoltaic power system vol.11, pp.1, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5058754