Investigation on Harmonic Spreading Effect of Conventional and Innovative Multi-Level Inverter Control Strategies

Abstract:

The pulse width modulation (PWM) strategy employed in the voltage source inverter (VSI) not only control the magnitude of the output voltage but also the quality. Performance evaluations of such strategies are done in terms of fundamental voltage, total harmonic distortion (THD), switching losses etc. (primary indices) and also in terms of acoustic noise, electromagnetic interference (EMI), harmonic spread factor, distribution of harmonic power etc. (secondary indices). Multilevel inverter (MLI) has become unanimous choice in medium and high power applications due to their superior performance compared to three level inverters. The conventional Sub-Harmonic PWM (SHPWM) scheme and its variations offer the output voltage spectrum with high intensity harmonic components around the switching frequency; it will end with cluster harmonic with high acoustic noise. The first objective of this paper is to investigate harmonic spreading effects of existing multilevel inverter (MLI) strategies. Secondly the developing innovative PWM strategies for MLIs based on modified reference and carrier functions, which were proved for superior the primary indices at three-level VSI. Thorough simulation study of Pulse width modulation strategies such as SHPWM, inverted sine carrier PWM, MWM PWM, third harmonic injection PWM, triplen harmonic injection PWM, analog space vector PWM, trapezoidal PWM and discontinuous PWM for a cascaded multilevel inverter, are presented with results of primary and secondary indices. Hence, the PWM strategies of MLI are evaluated for harmonic spreading effect first time and a guide line for a beginner to select the PWM scheme for MLI fed drive systems is stenciled.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 626)
• Pages: 141-149
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.626.141
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Shibu J.V. Bright*, V. Suba, S. Ramkumar, S. Jeevananthan
• Keywords: Discontinuous PWM, Harmonic Spread Factor, Inverted Sine Carrier PWM, Multilevel Inverter (MLI), MWM Shape Carrier PWM, Power Density Spectrum, Sub-Harmonic PWM, Third Harmonic Injected PWM Method, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Trapezoidal PWM, Triplen Harmonic Injected PWM Method

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