《Soft-Switched Three Level Capacitor Clamping Inverter with clamping voltage stabilization》.pdf

Soft-Switched Three Level Capacitor Clamping Inverter with Clamping Voltage Stabilization Xiaoming Yuan Ivo Barbi Power Electronics and Electrometrology Laboratory Power Electronics Institute Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Federal University of Santa Catarina CH-8092, Switzerland 88040-970,Florianopolis-SC, Brazil Phone: +41- 1-632-6973 Fax: +41-1-632-1212 Phone: +55-48-33 1-9204 Fax: +55-48-234-5422 Abstract: This paper proposes a zero voltage switching NPC inverter. In particular, when the clamping capacitor scheme for the three-level capacitor clamping inverter. The voltage is kept stable, the two inner devices can then be small rating auxiliary circuit proposed ensures not only zero clamped as tightly as that in the normal two level inverter. voltage switching of the main switches and zero current As the storage capacitor serves only for high frequency switching of the auxiliary switches, the clamping voltage of switching ripple filtering, the capacitance can be far the inverter is also stabilized. The scheme prevents any voltage or current spikes from happening over the main or smaller than the DC link storage capacitor which is auxiliary switches and no modulation constraints are always required to offer energy storage for system necessitated. Operation, analysis, designing and testing