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Electric Power Construction ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 79-.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-7229.2017.04.011

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 Voltage Sharing Control Strategy of Diode Clamped MMC Circuit

 DING Ruoyu1,  WANG Yi1, FU Yuan1, LIU Hao1, LI Chunlai2   

  1.  1.State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
    Sources (North China Electric Power University), Baoding 071003, Hebei Province, China;
     
    2.Qinghai Province Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Grid Connected Power Generation Technology
     (State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Research Institute), Xining 810000, China
  • Online:2017-04-01
  • Supported by:
     Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development of China(863 Program)(2015AA050101)

Abstract:   To solve the problem that the traditional modular multilevel converter (MMC) voltage balancing system contains more DC voltage sensors and complicated control circuit, this paper applies the diode clamped topology into the MMC, and puts forward the suitable capacitor voltage balance control method for this topology. This topology can provide one-way clamp path for the DC capacitor by installing clamp diodes in each sub module capacitor anode, so as to reduce the sub module capacitor voltage of each bridge arm in MMC from top to bottom in turn, and simplify the system circuit and its control method. Finally, we build the eleven level diode clamped MMC topology simulation model in 

MATLAB/SIMULINK. The results show that the topology has the self ordering function and good balance effect of the capacitor voltage.

Key words: diode clamped, modular multilevel converter  (MMC), capacitor voltage balance control, capacitor voltage self ordering

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