Transformer‐less five‐level high‐voltage full‐scale converter with a self‐balance auxiliary circuit for 10 MW wind turbines

Autor: Xiao Zhang, De-ling Gong, Xiang-jun Zeng, Hang Wang, Xu Yang
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: IET Power Electronics. 10:1841-1851
ISSN: 1755-4543
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2017.0007
Popis: A novel transformer-less five-level (5L) high-voltage full-scale converter is proposed for 10 MW wind turbines. In this scheme, a unidirectional sinusoidal 5L-Vienna rectifier is used as a variable-speed controller at the generator side, and a conventional 5L neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverter is used as the grid-integrated converter. The intrinsic dc-link NP imbalance issue is solved only by a proposed dc-link self-balance auxiliary circuit. This study focuses on the modulation technology of the rectifier and the operational principle of the auxiliary circuit. Furthermore, it presents a control strategy for the proposed converter. Finally, the small-scale experiments are carried out to verify the analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE