Open AccessMaster–slave structure‐based capacitor voltage measuring technique for hybrid modular multilevel converters
Author(s) -
Li Dongye,
Sun Yichao,
Zhang Shengqi,
Ji Zhendong,
Yue Yue,
Zhao Jianfeng,
You Jun
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
iet power electronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1755-4543
pISSN - 1755-4535
DOI - 10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5302
Subject(s) - modular design , converters , voltage , capacitor , fault (geology) , sampling (signal processing) , measure (data warehouse) , electronic engineering , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , filter (signal processing) , database , seismology , geology , operating system
The measurement of the capacitor voltage of each sub‐module (SM) is a crucial part of achieving robust control of modular multilevel converters (MMCs). This study proposes a master–slave structure‐based capacitor voltage measuring technique (MS‐MT) for hybrid MMCs, in which the SM capacitor voltages are calculated using nine processes at the corresponding sampling instants according to the changing rule of the arm AC‐side voltage and SM operation states. In MS‐MT, the master sensor is used to measure the overall arm voltage while the slave sensor, which measures the full bridge, is used additionally to improve accuracy. Furthermore, MS‐MT performs well even under pre‐charging and DC short‐circuit fault conditions, for the reason that a single SM short‐circuit fault can be detected during above two conditions by comparing the voltages measured by the two sensors. Compared with the direct measuring technique, which has low measurement errors, and the overall measuring technique, which requires less hardware cost, MS‐MT inherits both advantages. Finally, extensive simulation and experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed MS‐MT.