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Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Multilevel Converters

2010; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 57; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/tie.2010.2049719

1557-9948

Samir Kouro, Mariusz Malinowski, K. Gopakumar, Josep Pou, Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Bin Wu, José Rodríguez, Marcelo A. Pérez, José I. Leon,

HVDC Systems and Fault Protection

Multilevel converters have been under research and development for more than three decades and have found successful industrial application. However, this is still a technology under development, and many new contributions and new commercial topologies have been reported in the last few years. The aim of this paper is to group and review these recent contributions, in order to establish the current state of the art and trends of the technology, to provide readers with a comprehensive and insightful review of where multilevel converter technology stands and is heading. This paper first presents a brief overview of well-established multilevel converters strongly oriented to their current state in industrial applications to then center the discussion on the new converters that have made their way into the industry. In addition, new promising topologies are discussed. Recent advances made in modulation and control of multilevel converters are also addressed. A great part of this paper is devoted to show nontraditional applications powered by multilevel converters and how multilevel converters are becoming an enabling technology in many industrial sectors. Finally, some future trends and challenges in the further development of this technology are discussed to motivate future contributions that address open problems and explore new possibilities.