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New Method for Balancing Capacitors Voltages in NPC Inverter without DC-link Voltages Sensors

by Bessem Omri, Kaicar Ammous, Anis Ammous
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 65 - Number 22
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Bessem Omri, Kaicar Ammous, Anis Ammous
10.5120/11216-6370

Bessem Omri, Kaicar Ammous, Anis Ammous . New Method for Balancing Capacitors Voltages in NPC Inverter without DC-link Voltages Sensors. International Journal of Computer Applications. 65, 22 ( March 2013), 17-24. DOI=10.5120/11216-6370

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author = { Bessem Omri, Kaicar Ammous, Anis Ammous },
title = { New Method for Balancing Capacitors Voltages in NPC Inverter without DC-link Voltages Sensors },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { March 2013 },
volume = { 65 },
number = { 22 },
month = { March },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 17-24 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume65/number22/11216-6370/ },
doi = { 10.5120/11216-6370 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

This paper presents a simple SVM technique of capacitors voltages balance for three-level NPC inverters. In the proposed SVM algorithm the voltages sensors are not required. An adaptative observer to estimate capacitors voltages was used. The presented SVM technique slightly modifies space vector modulation technique by adding a control parameter which is used to adjust the distribution of vector times of middle voltage vector according to the capacitors voltages. Simulation results are given to show the validity of the proposed balance algorithm.

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

SVM three-level NPC inverters capacitor voltage balance adaptative observer