A Hybrid Discontinuous PWM Strategy for Current Ripple and Neutral-Point Fluctuation Reduction of Parallel Vienna Rectifier

Abstract

Generally, discontinuous pulsewidth modulation (DPWM) strategy used in single Vienna rectifier will result in large current ripple and neutral-point fluctuation. When applied in interleaved rectifier, the issue of neutral-point voltage still exists. Besides, the input current around zero-crossing point is distorted due to the characteristics of unidirectional topology. Hence, a novel hybrid DPWM (H-DPWM) strategy for parallel Vienna rectifier is proposed in this article to reduce the distortion, current ripple, and neutral-point fluctuation. In this article, the characteristics of current ripple and neutral-point fluctuation with traditional DPWM (T-DPWM) are clarified at first. Then, the quantitative analyses on current ripple and neutral-point fluctuation with T-DPWM, classical space vector modulation, and optimized DPWM (O-DPWM) are presented in detail. To solve the issue of current distortion, the H-DPWM is proposed based on O-DPWM. Furthermore, the switching losses of these modulations are evaluated. At last, the analyses and performance of the proposed H-DPWM are verified by the experiments.