RT Conference Proceedings T1 Amplitude control of the neutral-point voltage oscillations in the three-level converter A1 Zaragoza, J. A1 Pou, J. A1 Arias, A. A1 Ceballos, S. A1 Robles, E. A1 Ibáñez, P. A1 Gabiola, I. AB This paper presents a control method to regulate the amplitude of the voltage oscillations that appear in the neutral-point of the three-level diode-clamped converter for some operating conditions. The control is applied to the hybrid modulation technique, which is based on combining two modulation techniques. One of them is based on two modulation signals per phase, and can remove completely the low-frequency voltage oscillations on the neutral point. However, such a modulation strategy has an important drawback; it increases significantly switching losses on the converter. The hybrid modulation used here combines such a modulation with sinusoidal PWM. The main characteristic of this hybrid modulation is the capacity to reduce switching losses at the cost of having some low-frequency voltage oscillations on the neutral point. The amplitude of these oscillations can be regulated thanks to the proposed controller, which defines the exact degree of mixture between the two modulation strategies. Some simulation and experimental results are presented in this paper. SN 9781424416684 SN 0275-9306 YR 2008 FD 2008 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1767 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1767 LA eng NO Zaragoza , J , Pou , J , Arias , A , Ceballos , S , Robles , E , Ibáñez , P & Gabiola , I 2008 , Amplitude control of the neutral-point voltage oscillations in the three-level converter . in PESC '08 - 39th IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference - Proceedings . , 4592312 , PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference , pp. 2473-2477 , PESC '08 - 39th IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference , Rhodes , Greece , 15/06/08 . https://doi.org/10.1109/PESC.2008.4592312 NO conference DS TECNALIA Publications RD 28 jul 2024