Methods and techniques of synchronous multi-zone modulation for the control of power electronic converters

Abstract

This paper presents a short survey of the results of elaboration and investigation of novel methods, schemes, and algorithms of synchronous multi-zone space-vector modulation of signals in power electronic converters of electrical energy parameters, focused on improvement of operation efficiency of converter-based transport-oriented electric drives and of photovoltaic power conversion systems, which were published mainly in the two-year period 2019–2020. These methods and algorithms of synchronous pulse-width modulation (PWM) allow providing continuous synchronization and symmetries of waveforms of the converters output voltage, with minimization of undesirable sub-harmonics in spectra of voltage and current, and also with minimization of undesirable common-mode voltage in electric transport systems and in photovoltaic systems, which leads to corresponding loss reduction and efficiency increasing of these systems.