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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2013.13.2.243
JPE 13-2-8
Abstract
This paper presents a neutral-point voltage balancing method for three-level inverter systems using a time-offset estimation
scheme. The neutral-point voltage is balanced by adding a time-offset to the turn-on time of the switches. If an inaccurate time-offset
is added, the neutral-point deviation still remains. An accurate time-offset is obtained through the proposed time-offset estimation
scheme. This method is implemented without additional hardware, complex calculations, or analysis. The effectiveness of the
proposed method is verified by experiments.
Key words: Multilevel, Neutral-point voltage balancing, NPC inverter
I.
INTRODUCTION
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Type
Switching state
N-type
P-type
II.
Fig. 2. Space vector diagram of three-level inverter.
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(1)
(2)
ma =
3
(V + Vmax ) = 1
VDC ref
Vmax = (
VDC
3
- Vref )
2V
T
| Toffset _ max |= ( max sw Tclock )
VDC
2Tclock
=(
Vmax
Tsw )
VDC
(3)
(4)
(5)
1 Vref
) Tsw )
3 VDC
(6)
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DToffset = a T
DToffset = a T
DToffset = b T
DToffset = b T
determined as above.
Toffset(-) = Toffset_max(-)
Toffset(-) = Toffset_old(-)
2) Vd > 0 & Vd_old > Vd : Toffset should be subtracted from
Toffset_old(-) because the voltage deviation still remains. Toffset(-) is
defined as:
Toffset(-) = Toffset_old(-) - Toffset
3) Vd < 0 & Vd_old > Vd : this situation occurs when the added
time-offset Toffset_old(-) has a larger magnitude of the negative
value than Tcorrect(-). Therefore, Toffset should be added to
reduce the magnitude of the negative value. Toffset(-) is defined
as:
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TABLE II
PARAMETERS OF THE EXPERIMENTS
Parameter
DC-link
voltage
Switching
frequency
Value
Parameter
Value
5 Tcontrol
(Vd > Vd_min)
20 Tcontrol
(Vd < Vd_min)
160 V
15 kHz
Control period
of proposed
scheme
Control period
(Tcontrol)
66.7 s
Vd_max
10 V
Tclock
3.33 ns
Vd_min
3V
Current
6A
Vnormal
1V
Frequency of
current
60 Hz
Toffset_max
1150Tclock
Load
10
3 mH
Toffset
= 30
=1
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V. CONCLUSIONS
This paper has presented a neutral-point voltage balancing
scheme. The proposed method is implemented by adding a
time-offset to the turn-on times of switches. An accurate
time-offset is obtained through the proposed time-offset
estimation scheme without complex calculations, modeling, or
additional hardware. Furthermore, the proposed method does
not affect the system performance. The experimental results
confirm the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed
neutral-point voltage balancing method.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by a National Research Foundation
of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government
(MEST) (no. 20120002247).
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