Abstract
This work presents a programmed PWM method to eliminate specific higher order harmonics of multilevel converters. First, resultant theory is applied to transcendental equations to eliminate low order harmonics and to determine switching angles for the fundamental frequency switching techniques. Next the magnitudes and phases of the residual higher order harmonics are computed, generated, and subtracted from the original voltage waveform to eliminate these higher order harmonics. The simulation results show that the method can effectively eliminate the specific harmonics, and a low total harmonic distortion (THD) near sine wave is produced. An experimental 11-level H-bridge multilevel converter with a first-on, first-off switching strategy, which is used to balance loads between several levels, is employed to validate the method. The experimental results show that the method can effectively eliminate the specific harmonics, and the output voltage waveforms have less THD than that from the fundamental frequency switching techniques.
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