The Series Bridge Converter (SBC): design of a compact modular multilevel converter for grid applications

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Amankwah, Emmanuel K., Costabeber, Alessando, Watson, Alan James, Trainer, David, Jasim, Omar, Chivite-Zabalza, Javier and Clare, Jon C. (2016) The Series Bridge Converter (SBC): design of a compact modular multilevel converter for grid applications. In: 42nd Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2016), 24-27 October 2016, Florence, Italy.

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel hybrid modular multilevel voltage source converter suitable for grid applications. The proposed converter retains the advantages of other modular multilevel topologies and can be made more compact making it attractive for offshore stations and other footprint critical applications like city infeeds. In this paper, the basic operating principle and design criteria for the converter implementation are presented. The submodule capacitor requirements which have significant influence on the size of a converter station are also evaluated and compared to the MMC.

The performance of the converter is supported by simulation results from a representative medium voltage scaled demonstrator.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/821926
Additional Information: © 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. doi: 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793197
Keywords: MMC, Converter design, capacitor sizing, Offshore, Compact HVDC VSC systems
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Engineering > Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Depositing User: Burns, Rebecca
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2016 08:04
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:15
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/37544

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