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Reduction of DC capacitor size in Three-Phase Input/Single-Phase Output power cells of multi-cell converters through Resonant and Predictive Control: A characterization of its impact on the operating region

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2023
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Ramírez, Roberto
Baier, Carlos
Villarroel,Felipe
Dr. Espinosa-Neira, Eduardo
Arevalo, Mauricio
Espinoza, Jose
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Mathematics
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Cascaded H-bridge drives require using a significant-size capacitor on each cell to deal with the oscillatory power generated by the H-bridge inverter in the DC-link. This results in a bulky cell with reduced reliability due to the circulating second harmonic current through the DC-link capacitors. In this article, a control strategy based on a finite control set model predictive control and a proportional-resonant controller is proposed to compensate for the oscillatory power required by the H-bridge inverter through the cell’s input rectifier. With the proposed strategy, a DC-link second harmonic free operation is achieved, allowing for the possibility of reducing the capacitor size and, in consequence, the cell dimensions. The feasibility of the proposed control scheme is verified by experimental results in one cell of a cascade H-bridge inverter achieving an operation with a capacitance 141 times smaller than required by conventional control approaches for the same voltage ripple.
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Predictive control, FCS, MPC, Resonant control, MLI
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