Voltage Monitoring on Capacitor of Modular Multilevel Converter

Ingars Steiks; Leonids Ribickis

doi:10.2478/v10144-009-0031-1

Voltage Monitoring on Capacitor of Modular Multilevel Converter

Authors

Ingars Steiks Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
Leonids Ribickis Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10144-009-0031-1

Abstract

A modular multilevel converter is an attractive solution for power conversion without transformers. As modular multilevel converter consists of cascade connections and floating dc capacitors, it requires continuous voltage monitoring. This paper represents voltage measurement circuit of a DC-storage capacitor including power supply with results of experiments.

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