Optimization Methods to Reduce Capacitor Stress in Modular Multilevel Converters

Modular multilevel converters consist of many capacitor half-bridge or full-bridge converter cells. Stresses on the capacitors result from peak capacitor voltage, capacitor voltage ripple and current ripple. Three new tractable convex optimisation problems are presented that reduce peak capacitor vo...

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Main Authors: Nikola Petranovic, Antonio Cantoni, Christopher D. Townsend, Georgios Konstantinou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9286429/