Validation of the Quasi-Two-Level Operation for a Flying Capacitor Converter in Medium-Voltage Applications

Standard medium-voltage converters are operated at low switching frequencies using bulky passive components. One concept to change this involves the quasi-two-level operation (Q2O) of multilevel converters that use fast-switching semiconductors to minimize the need for passive components. The flying...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 16; no. 6; p. 2797
Main Authors Mersche, Stefan Christoph, Schwendemann, Rüdiger, Hiller, Marc
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2023
Subjects
Algorithms
Capacitors
control or power converters
DC–AC converters
Design and construction
Electric current converters
Electrical measurement
optimization
Passive components
Semiconductors
Signal processing
Silicon carbide
Voltage
Voltage converters
Germany
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Summary:Standard medium-voltage converters are operated at low switching frequencies using bulky passive components. One concept to change this involves the quasi-two-level operation (Q2O) of multilevel converters that use fast-switching semiconductors to minimize the need for passive components. The flying capacitor converter (FCC) uses SiC semiconductors and operates with Q2O to minimize passive components. In this paper, two different quasi-two-level algorithms are analyzed. A medium-voltage prototype was built and low-voltage and medium-voltage measurements were used to validate the concept. A particular focus is on the overvoltage, the dv/dt behavior of the converter, as well as the dynamic behavior.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en16062797