Multilevel Converters: Topologies, Control, Modulation, Operation and Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 26701
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial electronics; power electronics; multilevel converters; renewable energy; electrical engineering
Interests: power electronics systems; modeling, modulation and control of power electronics; converters applied to renewable energy technologies
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Interests: multilevel converters; renewable energy; modulation techniques
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Multilevel converters have become a mature and attractive solution for many applications mainly for medium voltage, high power systems. Nowadays, multilevel converters can be found in the product portfolio of many manufacturers for applications such as motor drives, renewable energy sources, FACTS, and HVDC, among others. The continuous efforts of academia and industry has led to the fast development of different multilevel converter topologies, modulation techniques and control strategies to improve features such as the efficiency, robustness, fault-tolerant capability, economic cost and size, among others. The research on this topic is ongoing, and is nowadays a hot research topic.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- New multilevel converter topologies
- Multilevel converters for adjustable speed drives
- Multilevel converters for grid-connected utilities such as active filter, AC and DC microgrids, STATCOM, FACTS, HVDC, etc.
- Multilevel converters for renewable energy applications
- Multilevel rectifiers and applications in regenerative systems
- Modulation strategies for multilevel converters
- Control methods for multilevel converters
- Fault-tolerant capability of multilevel converters
- High-efficiency multilevel converters
Prof. Sergio Vazquez Perez
Prof. Jose Ignacio Leon Galvan
Prof. Leopoldo García Franquelo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multilevel converters
- modulation techniques
- control methods
- high-power systems
- renewable energy sources
- motor drives
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