Non-equal DC link Voltages in a Cascaded H-Bridge with a Selective Harmonic Mitigation-PWM Technique Based on the Fundamental Switching Frequency

作者：Moeini Amirhossein; Iman Eini Hossein^*; Najjar Mohammad

来源：Journal of Power Electronics, 2017, 17(1): 106-114.

DOI：10.6113/JPE.2017.17.1.106

• Cascaded H-bridge
• Multilevel converters
• Particle swarm optimization
• Selective harmonic mitigation PWM

In this paper, the Selective Harmonic Mitigation-PWM (SHM-PWM) method is used in single-phase and three-phase Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) inverters in order to fulfill different power quality standards such as EN 50160, CIGRE WG 36-05, IEC 61000-3-6 and IEC 61000-2-12. Non-equal DC link voltages are used to increase the degrees of freedom for the proposed SHM-PWM technique. In addition, it will be shown that the obtained solutions become continuous and without sudden changes. As a result, the look-up tables can be significantly reduced. The proposed three-phase modulation method can mitigate up to the 50th harmonic from the output voltage, while each switch has just one switching in a fundamental period. In other words, the switching frequency of the power switches are limited to 50 Hz, which is the lowest switching frequency that can be achieved in the multilevel converters, when the optimal selective harmonic mitigation method is employed. In single-phase mode, the proposed method can successfully mitigate harmonics up to the 50th, where the switching frequency is 150 Hz. Finally, the validity of the proposed method is verified by simulations and experiments on a 9-level CHB inverter.

• 出版日期2017-1