Comparison of bipolar sub-modules for the alternate arm converter

• Main Authors: Wickramasinghe, Harith R., Konstantinou, Georgios, Pou, Josep
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Alternate arm converter; Cross-connected submodules
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83226; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42490
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The alternate arm converter (AAC) is an emerging dc-fault tolerant multilevel converter topology aimed at high-power and HVDC applications. This paper addresses the suitability of modular multilevel converter (MMC) submodules (SMs) for the AAC. Bipolar SMs are applicable for AACs depending on the co...