Incremental passivity control in multilevel cascaded H-bridge converters

• Main Authors: Rodriguez, Ezequiel Ramos, Leyva, Ramon, Farivar, Glen Ghias, Dehghani Tafti, Hossein, Townsend, Christopher David, Pou, Josep
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Bilinear System Control; Cascaded H-bridge (CHB)
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139664
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A low-capacitance static compensator (LC-StatCom) based on a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel converter can be an efficient and low-cost solution for reactive power compensation in power grids. However, the reduced capacitance, and, therefore, faster capacitor voltage dynamics, makes it challengin...