Harmonic elimination in multilevel converters

John Chiasson; Leon Tolbert; Keith McKenzie; Zhong Du

Harmonic elimination in multilevel converters

John Chiasson, Leon Tolbert, Keith McKenzie, Zhong Du

Electrical Engineering Department

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Abstract

A method is presented to compute the switching angles in a multilevel converter so as to produce the required fundamental voltage while at the same time not generate higher order harmonics. Using a fundamental switching scheme, previous work has shown that this is possible only for specific ranges of the modulation index. Here it is shown for a three DC source multilevel inverter that, by modifying the switching scheme, one can extend the range of modulation indices for which the switching angles exist to achieve the fundamental while eliminating the 5 ^th and 7 ^th harmonics. In contrast to numerical techniques, the approach here produces all possible solutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Multi-Conference - Power and Energy Systems
Editors	K.M. Smedley
Pages	284-289
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2003
Event	Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Multi-Conference - Power and Energy Systems - Palm Springs, CA, United States Duration: 24 Feb 2003 → 26 Feb 2003

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the IASTED Multi-Conference- Power and Energy Systems
Volume	7

Conference

Conference	Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Multi-Conference - Power and Energy Systems
Country/Territory	United States
City	Palm Springs, CA
Period	24/02/03 → 26/02/03

Keywords

Harmonic Elimination
Multilevel Converters
Resultants
Symmetric Polynomials

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Chiasson, J, Tolbert, L, McKenzie, K & Du, Z 2003, Harmonic elimination in multilevel converters. in KM Smedley (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Multi-Conference - Power and Energy Systems. Proceedings of the IASTED Multi-Conference- Power and Energy Systems, vol. 7, pp. 284-289, Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Multi-Conference - Power and Energy Systems, Palm Springs, CA, United States, 24/02/03.

Harmonic elimination in multilevel converters. / Chiasson, John; Tolbert, Leon; McKenzie, Keith et al.
Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Multi-Conference - Power and Energy Systems. ed. / K.M. Smedley. 2003. p. 284-289 (Proceedings of the IASTED Multi-Conference- Power and Energy Systems; Vol. 7).

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