Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This research proposes state-of-the-art multilevel converter topologies and their
modulation strategies, the implementation of a conventional flying-capacitor converter
topology up to four-level, and a new four-level flying-capacitor H-Bridge converter
confi guration. The three phase version of this proposed four-level flying-capacitor
H-Bridge converter is given as well in this study. The highlighted advantages of the
proposed converter are as following: (1) the same blocking voltage for all switches
employed in the con figuration, (2) no capacitor midpoint connection is needed, (3)
reduced number of passive elements as compared to the conventional solution, (4)
reduced total dc source value by comparison with the conventional topology.
The proposed four-level capacitor-clamped H-Bridge converter can be utilized as
a multilevel inverter application in an electri fied railway system, or in hybrid electric
vehicles.
In addition to the implementation of the proposed topology in this research, its
experimental setup has been designed to validate the simulation results of the given
converter topologies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/6299 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Gulpinar, Feyzullah |
| Contributors | Santos Jr., Euzeli Cipriano dos, Li, Lingxi, King, Brian |
| Source Sets | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ |
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