KR101929519B1 - Three level neutral point clamped inverter system having imbalance capacitor voltages and its control method - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, there is provided a three-level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage that performs PWM voltage modulation by adding a capacitive PWM voltage using a voltage difference of upper and lower capacitors to a reference command.
A three-level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage according to the present invention includes: a DC link capacitor in which upper and lower capacitors are connected in series; A three-level inverter connected in parallel with the DC link capacitor and converting the DC power received by switching to the PWM signal to AC power and outputting the AC power; A filter for filtering a voltage and a current of a PWM waveform output from the three-level inverter by a sine wave load voltage and a load current; An output voltage controller for proportionally integrating an effective value deviation voltage which is a difference between an effective value detection voltage and an effective value command voltage using the three-phase load voltage output from the filter to output an output minute PWM voltage; A capacitive voltage divider for outputting a capacitive PWM voltage using a deviation of a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors; An unbalanced current controller for outputting an operation stoppage control signal by using a deviation of a current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors; An adder for adding the output minus PWM voltage and the capacity minus PWM voltage to output a PWM command voltage; And a three-level PWM generator for generating a PWM signal by comparing the PWM command signal and a carrier signal output from the carrier generator.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a three-level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage,

The present invention relates to a three-level NPC (Neutral Point Clamped) inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage, and more particularly, to an unbalanced capacitor voltage control method using a PWM Level NPC inverter system and a control method thereof.

In order to improve output efficiency and reduce harmonics, recent power conversion systems are changing their topologies from two-level inverters to multi-level inverters. Among these multi-level inverters, three-level NPC inverters are being researched and developed. The output voltage of the 3-level NPC inverter has 5 levels of voltage level, which has less harmonics and reduces the passive element value of the output filter, so that the filter capacity and volume can be made small.

In addition, since the voltage applied to the switching element of the 3-level NPC inverter is half that of the 2-level inverter, the voltage stress is small and the loss generated during the switching operation is small.

A three-level NPC inverter is composed of two series-connected capacitors whose dc terminals are usually connected to each other, but the capacitors are not the same in value, or the current flows to the neutral point, so that the capacitor voltages at the upper and lower ends are not completely the same. The neutral voltage of the 3-level inverter has a phase voltage output level of Vdc / 2, 0, (-) Vdc / 2. If this neutral voltage fluctuates, the output voltage level can not be guaranteed and harmonic And may damage the load.

Continuous PWM (CPWM) and Discontinuous PWM (DPWM) techniques reduce the switching loss.

In general, the method of improving the unbalanced voltage uses a method of modulating the PWM waveform by modulating the command voltage with respect to the triangular wave carrier. Most of the existing technologies are about how to make the command voltage, especially DPWM.

However, these methods have the advantage that the control is complicated and the neutral point current is detected and there is an error in input, there is an inaccurate aspect, and the switching is less and the loss is reduced. However, Have.

In addition, there is a method to perform vector control through dq conversion in output voltage control, but in this case, calculation of transcendental function must be done, so it is not easy to implement.

The technique disclosed in Patent No. 10-1309290 (entitled "Neutral Point Voltage Control Device and Method Therefor of 3-Level NPC Inverter Using Discontinuous Pulse Width Modulation Method)" discloses a method of controlling a neutral point unbalance voltage by using discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM ) Method. The non-continuous switching period is controlled to control the neutral point unbalance voltage to increase or decrease the N-type discontinuous switching period as the P-type discontinuous switching period is increased or decreased according to the calculated unbalance voltage. This leads to the problem that the computation becomes complicated, the output nonlinearity arises, and the amount of harmonics included in the current increases.

The technique disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 10-2016-0053336 (entitled "Apparatus and Method for Controlling the Imbalance of Neutral Point Voltage of Three-Level Inverter)" discloses a method of controlling the neutral point voltage of a three level inverter using a discontinuous voltage modulation (DPWM) The present invention relates to a method of calculating a switching magnitude by multiplying a difference between a first capacitor voltage and a second capacitor voltage by an output current value when a voltage offset is applied and calculating a neutral point compensation gain coefficient, The current value of the three phases must be converted to DC, and it is difficult to obtain an accurate value due to the noise generated at this time.

No. 10-1688649, entitled "High Efficiency Three-Level Solar Inverter with Unbalance Control of Neutral Voltage", describes a method of calculating the neutral point unbalance voltage between capacitors using the DPWM method and calculating the calculated voltage unbalance voltage Type discontinuous switching period by controlling the discontinuous switching period to control the neutral point unbalance voltage to decrease or increase the N-type discontinuous switching period as the P-type discontinuous switching period is increased or decreased, And used as a command voltage. This method also has a problem that the nonlinearity of modulation and the harmonic amount of current increase.

Patent No. 10-1309290 Patent Document No. 10-2016-0053336 Patent No. 10-1688649

According to the present invention, mathematical modeling is simple and easy to implement by calculating a voltage effective value (Vrms) at the time of controlling the output voltage by using the PWM voltage for the continuous capacity instead of the PWM for the discontinuous capacitance. Level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage and a control method thereof.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a three-level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage capable of easily estimating capacitance imbalance by comparing current values flowing after voltage balancing of upper and lower stages capacitors, and a control method thereof .

In addition, according to the present invention, a three-level NPC having an unbalanced capacitor voltage capable of rapidly improving the unbalance of the capacitor voltage by performing the PWM voltage modulation by adding the capacitive PWM voltage using the voltage difference of the upper and lower capacitors to the reference command, There is another object in providing an inverter system and a control method thereof.

A three-level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage according to the present invention includes: a DC link capacitor in which upper and lower capacitors are connected in series; A three-level inverter connected in parallel with the DC link capacitor and converting the DC power received by switching to the PWM signal to AC power and outputting the AC power; A filter for filtering a voltage and a current of a PWM waveform output from the three-level inverter by a sine wave load voltage and a load current; An output voltage controller for proportionally integrating an effective value deviation voltage which is a difference between an effective value detection voltage and an effective value command voltage using the three-phase load voltage output from the filter to output an output minute PWM voltage; A capacitive voltage divider for outputting a capacitive PWM voltage using a deviation of a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors; An unbalanced current controller for outputting an operation stoppage control signal by using a deviation of a current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors; An adder for adding the output minus PWM voltage and the capacity minus PWM voltage to output a PWM command voltage; And a three-level PWM generator for generating a PWM signal by comparing the PWM command signal and a carrier signal output from the carrier generator.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the output voltage divider includes an effective voltage value calculator for outputting an effective value detection voltage using the three-phase load voltage; A first subtracter for outputting an effective value deviation voltage which is a difference between an effective value command voltage applied from the outside and the effective value detection voltage; And a first proportional-integral controller for proportionally integrating the rms-value deviation voltage to output an output-minus PWM voltage.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the effective voltage calculator calculates and outputs an effective value detection voltage for each sampling period of a predetermined period.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the capacitance divider includes a second subtractor receiving a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors and outputting upper and lower capacitor deviation voltages, which is a difference between an upper capacitor voltage and a lower capacitor voltage; And a second proportional integral controller for proportionally integrating the upper and lower capacitor deviation voltages to output a capacitive PWM voltage.

According to an aspect of the present invention, the unbalanced current controller receives an upper capacitor current and a lower capacitor current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors, and outputs an upper and lower capacitor deviation current that is a difference between the upper capacitor current and the lower capacitor current A third subtractor; A limiter for outputting an operation stoppage control signal when the upper-stage capacitor deviation current reaches an upper limit reference value or a lower limit reference value; And an unbalance determining unit for determining an unbalance of the upper and lower capacitors using the operation stop control signal and outputting an unbalance determining signal.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a 3-level PWM generator blocks the output of the PWM signal in response to the operation stop control signal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a control method of a three-level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage, comprising: a DC link capacitor having an upper and a lower capacitor connected in series; Level inverter, and a three-level inverter for converting a power into an AC power and outputting the converted AC power, the method comprising the steps of: calculating a rms difference voltage, which is a difference between an rms detection voltage and an rms command voltage using a three- An output voltage divider control step of outputting a PWM output voltage by proportional integration; A capacitive voltage divider control step of outputting a capacitive PWM voltage using a deviation of a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors; A DC current control step of outputting an operation stoppage control signal by using a deviation of a current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors; Adding the output minus PWM voltage and the capacity minus PWM voltage to output a PWM command voltage; And a three-level PWM generating step of generating a PWM signal by comparing the PWM command voltage with a carrier signal output from the carrier generator and providing the generated PWM signal to the three-level inverter.

According to the three-level NPC inverter system having the unbalanced capacitor voltage of the present invention, mathematical modeling is simple and easy to implement by using the continuous offset voltage rather than the discontinuous offset voltage and calculating the voltage effective value (Vrms) The capacitor imbalance can easily be estimated by comparing the current values flowing after the voltage balancing of the upper and lower capacitors is made and the offset voltage using the voltage difference of the upper and lower capacitors is added to the reference command to perform the PWM voltage modulation, Can be rapidly improved.

1 is a 3-level inverter control block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2A is a waveform diagram of a triangle wave carrier wave and a command voltage according to an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 2B is an offset voltage waveform generated through control of a capacitor neutral point voltage according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2C is a composite waveform for a PWM signal according to an embodiment of the present invention,
3A shows a triangular wave carrier wave and a command voltage waveform when controlling the capacitor neutral point voltage ratio,
FIG. 3B is a graph showing the capacitance-minus PWM voltage waveform in the control of the capacitor neutral point voltage ratio,
3C is a waveform chart of the upper and lower capacitor voltages at the time of control of the capacitor neutral point voltage ratio,
4A is a graph showing a triangular wave carrier wave and a command voltage waveform when controlling the capacitor neutral point voltage,
FIG. 4B is a graph showing the capacitance-minus PWM voltage waveform during the control of the capacitor neutral point voltage,
4C is a waveform diagram of the upper and lower capacitor voltages at the time of controlling the capacitor neutral point voltage,
5A is a current waveform diagram when the capacitances of the upper and lower stages capacitors are the same, and Fig.
FIG. 5B is a current waveform diagram when the capacitances of the upper and lower stages capacitors are different.

The description of the present invention is merely an example for structural or functional explanation, and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the embodiments described in the text. That is, the embodiments are to be construed as being variously embodied and having various forms, so that the scope of the present invention should be understood to include equivalents capable of realizing technical ideas. Also, the purpose or effect of the present invention should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention, since it does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all or only such effect.

Meanwhile, the meaning of the terms described in the present application should be understood as follows.

The terms "first "," second ", and the like are intended to distinguish one element from another, and the scope of the right should not be limited by these terms. For example, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component.

It is to be understood that the singular " include " or "have" are to be construed as including the stated feature, number, step, operation, It is to be understood that the combination is intended to specify that it does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof.

In each step, the identification code (e.g., a, b, c, etc.) is used for convenience of explanation, the identification code does not describe the order of each step, Unless otherwise stated, it may occur differently from the stated order. That is, each step may occur in the same order as described, may be performed substantially concurrently, or may be performed in reverse order.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used predefined terms should be interpreted to be consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art and can not be interpreted as having ideal or overly formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application.

1 is a 3-level inverter control block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The three-level inverter control block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a DC link capacitor 110, a three-level inverter 120, a filter 130, a three-phase load 135, an output voltage divider 140, A voltage divider controller 150, an unbalanced current controller 160, an adder 170, a carrier generator 175, and a three-level PWM generator 180.

In the case of a three-level NPC (Neutral Point Clamped) inverter, the DC link capacitors are separated to the upper and lower ends, which are involved in the stabilized power transmission of the DC voltage. If the value of this capacitor is different from the initial value or is varied for various reasons, the voltage fluctuation of the capacitor occurs. Excessive neutral-point voltage fluctuations can lead to overvoltage on the power device and increase the rated current of the device, leading to device failure.

Therefore, the 3-level inverter system according to the embodiment of the present invention can reduce the EMI noise by decreasing the dv / dt due to the series connection of the switches. Referring to FIG. 1, when the switches Sa1 and Sa2 are turned on and Sa3 and Sa4 are turned off, a voltage of + Vdc / 2 (= Vdc1) is applied to a. When Sa2 and Sa3 are turned off when Sa2 and Sa3 are turned on, a zero potential is applied to the neutral point N. [ If Sa1 and Sa2 are turned off when Sa4 and Sa3 are turned on, a voltage of -Vdc / 2 (= -Vdc2) is applied to a with respect to the neutral point N. [ By the above procedure, the voltage level of the a-phase is changed to + Vdc / 2, 0, -Vdc / 2, and the DC voltage is converted into the AC voltage.

In this process, the voltage of the b phase is shifted by 2? / 3 with respect to the electric angle, and the ON / OFF operation of the switch is the same as the operation of a. Likewise, the switches connected to c are operated in the same manner. After the voltage is applied to c, a switch of a phase is operated to output a continuous AC voltage.

However, in general, a three-level inverter structurally consists of two DC link capacitors 110 separated from each other, thus causing a voltage unbalance problem between the two capacitors. This voltage imbalance problem is caused by the fluctuation of the neutral point of the DC link capacitor 110, which increases voltage stress on the switch element and causes distortion of the output voltage.

Each of the three-level inverter 120 has four switches, and the second and third switches are connected to a clamping diode which prevents the voltage from increasing to a certain level or more. Thus, the three-level NPC inverter has three switching states: P state, N state, and O state. Ideally, the P state has an output voltage of Vdc / 2, the O state has an output voltage of 0V, and the N state has an output voltage of -Vdc / 2.

In the present invention, a continuous voltage modulation method is used to control the neutral point voltage of the three-level inverter (120).

The filter 130 filters the voltage and current of the PWM waveform output from the three-level inverter 120 with a load voltage and a load current of a sinusoidal wave and supplies the same to the load 135.

The effective value controller 140 includes an effective value voltage calculator 141 for outputting the effective value detection voltage Vrms using the detected three-phase load voltage and an effective value voltage calculator 141 for calculating the effective value deviation Vrms, which is the difference between the effective value command voltage Vrms_ins and the effective value detection voltage Vrms A first subtractor 143 for outputting the voltage Vrms_err and a first proportional integral controller 145 for proportionally integrating the effective value deviation voltage Vrms_err to output the output minus PWM voltage Vvpwm.

For example, if the load voltage output from the filter 130 has a frequency of 60 Hz, one cycle is determined to be 16.667 ms. However, quick determination can be performed by obtaining the effective value detection voltage at every sampling without obtaining the effective value detection voltage every one period . The method of obtaining the effective value detection voltage for each sampling as described above is hereinafter referred to as "moving RMS calculation".

Vn: output instantaneous voltage, N: window size

The effective value detection voltage (Vrms) according to the 'moving RMS calculation' of the present invention can be obtained by taking the square root of the value obtained by dividing the sum of the squares of sampling voltages at each point by the window size, when the size of the window is determined. At the next sampling instant, the first sampling value is discarded and the newly acquired value is set to the window size, so that the effective value voltage can be obtained for each sampling.

That is, the first detection effective value (Vrms (1)) and the second detection effective value (Vrms (2)) are expressed by Equations 2 and 3, respectively.

Then, the first proportional-plus-integral controller 145 proportionally integrates the effective value deviation voltage Vrms_err and outputs the output minus PWM voltage Vvpwm of Equation (4).

The DC voltage controller 150 receives the upper capacitor voltage Vdc1 and the lower capacitor voltage Vdc2 in the DC link capacitor 110 and receives the upper and lower capacitor voltage differences Vdc1 and Vdc2 as the difference between the upper capacitor voltage Vdc1 and the lower capacitor voltage Vdc2, And a second proportional integral controller 153 for proportionally integrating the upper and lower stage capacitor voltage difference Vdce and outputting a capacitive PWM voltage Vcpwm.

The second proportional integral controller 153 for outputting the capacitive PWM voltage Vcpwm generates the positive capacitance-amount PWM voltage Vcpwm to output the lower capacitor voltage Vdc2 when the upper-stage capacitor deviation voltage Vdce is positive. And generates the PWM command voltage Vpwm in the direction to decrease the upper capacitor voltage Vdc1. This has the effect of increasing the conduction time of the upper switching devices Sa1, Sb1, and Sc1, thereby rapidly reducing the voltage difference across the upper and lower capacitors.

Conversely, when the upper-stage capacitor deviation voltage Vdce is negative, the second proportional-plus-integral controller 153 for outputting the capacitive PWM voltage Vcpwm generates the upper capacitor voltage Vdc1 by generating the negative-capacitance PWM voltage Vcpwm, And generates the PWM command voltage Vpwm in the direction to decrease the lower capacitor voltage Vdc2.

The second proportional-plus-integral controller 153 proportionally integrates the upper-stage capacitor deviation voltage Vdce and outputs the capacitive PWM voltage Vcpwm of Equation (5).

The DC current controller 160 receives the upper capacitor current Idc1 and the lower capacitor current Idc2 in the DC link capacitor 110 and receives the upper capacitor current Idc1 flowing through the upper capacitor in the DC link capacitor 110, A third subtractor 161 for outputting the upper and lower stage capacitor deviation current Idce which is the difference between the capacitor current Idc2 and a third subtractor 161 for comparing the upper and lower stage capacitor currents Idc1 and Idc2 when the upper and lower stage capacitor current Idce reaches the upper limit reference value Iref or the lower limit reference value- A limiter 163 for outputting a stop control signal Sstop and an unbalance determining unit 165 for determining the unbalance of the upper and lower capacitors by using the operation stopping control signal Sstop and outputting the unbalance determining signal.

The adder 170 adds the amount-of-capacity PWM voltage Vcpwm and the amount of output PWM voltage Vvpwm to output the PWM command voltage Vpwm.

The 3-level PWM generator 180 generates a PWM signal by comparing the carrier signal Scarrier output from the carrier generator 175 with the PWM command voltage Vpwm, provides the PWM signal to the switching element of the 3-level inverter, Level inverter by interrupting the output of the PWM signal in response to the operation stoppage control signal (Sstop) output from the inverter (160).

In the case of a three-phase inverter, there are 6 switching periods of 60 degrees with respect to one cycle, which causes the third harmonic to occur at the power source side. Since it appears at the DC link voltage, the neutral point voltage can be controlled by adding the third harmonic to the capacity-amount PWM voltage (Vcpwm) corresponding to the offset voltage.

According to the present invention, the unbalance determination signal output from the unbalance determination unit 165 can be used to alarm through an alarm unit (not shown), at which time the manager can replace the upper and lower capacitor.

FIG. 2A is a waveform diagram of a triangular wave carrier wave and a command voltage waveform according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2B is a waveform of a PWM voltage waveform generated by a capacitor neutral point voltage control according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 8 is a composite waveform diagram for a PWM signal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2A, reference numeral V1 denotes a fundamental wave voltage, and since the present invention is applied to a three-level inverter, two carriers, Vcarr1 and Vcarr2, are output. 2C, the adder 170 outputs the third harmonic voltage waveform to the adder 170. The adder 170 outputs the third harmonic voltage waveform output from the DC voltage controller 150, And outputs the PWM command voltage Vpwm obtained by adding the voltage Vcpwm and the voltage-divided PWM voltage Vvpwm.

3A is a triangular wave carrier wave and a command voltage waveform in the control of the capacitor neutral point voltage ratio, FIG. 3B is a capacitance-voltage PWM voltage waveform during the control of the capacitor neutral point voltage ratio, and FIG. 3C is a top and bottom capacitor voltage waveform during the control of the capacitor neutral point voltage ratio .

If the capacitor neutral point voltage is not controlled, as shown in FIG. 3B, there is no capacitive PWM voltage (Vcpwm), and it is understood that the stabilization time until the upper and lower capacitor voltage becomes equilibrium takes about 200 ms have.

FIG. 4A is a waveform diagram of a triangular wave carrier wave and a command voltage waveform when the capacitor neutral point voltage is controlled. FIG. 4B is a waveform of the PWM voltage waveform of the capacitors during the control of the capacitor neutral point voltage, and FIG. 4C is a waveform diagram of the upper and lower capacitor voltages at the time of controlling the capacitor neutral point voltage.

When the capacitor neutral point voltage is controlled, as shown in FIG. 4B, there exists the capacity-minus PWM voltage Vcpwm, the voltage difference gradually decreases from the start of the neutral point voltage control, equilibrium is obtained at a DC voltage of 250 V after 30 ms, The voltage difference is controlled close to zero so that the voltage of each phase is output without distortion.

According to the present invention, a direct current flows to the neutral point when the neutral point potential of the three-level inverter fluctuates. In the present invention, a method of applying an offset voltage to an easy and simple neutral point voltage control method without complicated mathematical modeling of a neutral point current is used to reduce an unbalanced voltage of a neutral point. The voltages (Vdc1, Vdc2) of the upper and lower capacitors are measured to determine the unbalanced voltage of the neutral point.

FIG. 5A is a current waveform diagram when the capacitances of the upper and lower stages capacitors are the same, and FIG. 5B is a current waveform diagram when the capacities of the upper and lower stages capacitors are different.

If the values of the upper and lower stages of the capacitor are the same, the current values become equal to each other as shown in FIG. However, as shown in FIG. 5B, when the capacitances of the upper and lower stages capacitors are different, the current values are different.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the capacitances of the upper capacitor C1 and the lower capacitor C2 are 2000 u F and 1000 u F, respectively, and the DC link voltage is 500 V. When the AC voltage applied to the capacitor is 0.25 V and the frequency is 10 kHz, about 5 A flows to the upper capacitor C 1, and 2.5 A flows to the lower capacitor C 2. The difference in the upper and lower capacitor currents (Idce), which is the difference between these two values, is 2.5 A, which means that when the voltage and the frequency are the same, the currents flowing through the two capacitors are different.

The upper-stage capacitor deviation current Idce becomes larger as the carrier frequency becomes larger or the capacitance becomes larger.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with respect to specific embodiments thereof, it should be understood that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiment (s), but should be defined by equivalents to the appended claims, as well as the following claims.

110: DC Link Capacitor
120: Three level inverter
130: filter
135: Three-phase load
140: Output voltage divider
150: Capacitor voltage controller
160: Unbalanced current controller
170: adder
175: Carrier generator
180: Three level PWM generator

Claims (7)

A DC Link capacitor in which upper and lower capacitors are connected in series;
A three-level inverter connected in parallel with the DC link capacitor and converting the DC power received by switching to the PWM signal to AC power and outputting the AC power;
A filter for filtering a voltage and a current of a PWM waveform output from the three-level inverter by a sine wave load voltage and a load current;
An output voltage controller for proportionally integrating an effective value deviation voltage which is a difference between an effective value detection voltage and an effective value command voltage using the three-phase load voltage output from the filter to output an output minute PWM voltage;
A capacitive voltage divider for outputting a capacitive PWM voltage using a deviation of a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors;
An unbalanced current controller for outputting an operation stoppage control signal by using a deviation of a current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors;
An adder for adding the output minus PWM voltage and the capacity minus PWM voltage to output a PWM command voltage; And
A 3-level PWM generator for generating a PWM signal by comparing the PWM command voltage with a carrier signal outputted from a carrier generator
/ RTI > wherein the unbalanced capacitor voltage comprises an unbalanced capacitor voltage.
2. The voltage dividing circuit according to claim 1,
An effective value voltage calculator for outputting an effective value detection voltage using the three-phase load voltage;
A first subtracter for outputting an effective value deviation voltage which is a difference between an effective value command voltage applied from the outside and the effective value detection voltage; And
A first proportional integral controller for proportionally integrating the effective value deviation voltage to output an output minus PWM voltage,
/ RTI > wherein the unbalanced capacitor voltage comprises an unbalanced capacitor voltage.
3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the effective value voltage calculator has an unbalanced capacitor voltage for calculating and outputting an effective value detection voltage for each sampling of a predetermined period.
3. The power amplifier according to claim 2,
A second subtractor receiving a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors and outputting upper and lower capacitor deviation voltages that are difference between an upper capacitor voltage and a lower capacitor voltage; And
A second proportional integral controller for proportionally integrating the upper and lower capacitor deviation voltages to output a capacitive PWM voltage,
/ RTI > wherein the unbalanced capacitor voltage comprises an unbalanced capacitor voltage.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the unbalanced current controller comprises:
A third subtracter for receiving an upper capacitor current and a lower capacitor current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors and outputting upper and lower capacitor currents which are difference between the upper capacitor current and the lower capacitor current;
A limiter for outputting an operation stoppage control signal when the upper-stage capacitor deviation current reaches an upper limit reference value or a lower limit reference value; And
An unbalance determining section for determining an unbalance of the upper and lower capacitors using the operation stop control signal and outputting an unbalance determining signal,
/ RTI > wherein the unbalanced capacitor voltage comprises an unbalanced capacitor voltage.
6. The method of claim 5,
And the 3-level PWM generator cuts off the output of the PWM signal in response to the operation stop control signal.
A method of controlling a system including a DC link capacitor in which upper and lower capacitors are connected in series, and a three-level inverter connected in parallel with the DC link capacitor and converting the DC power received by switching to the PWM signal to AC power and outputting the AC power In this case,
An output voltage control step of proportionally integrating an effective value deviation voltage which is a difference between an effective value detection voltage and an effective value command voltage using the three-phase load voltage output from the three-level inverter to output an output minute PWM voltage;
A capacitive voltage divider control step of outputting a capacitive PWM voltage using a deviation of a voltage applied to the upper and lower capacitors;
A DC current control step of outputting an operation stoppage control signal by using a deviation of a current flowing in the upper and lower capacitors;
Adding the output minus PWM voltage and the capacity minus PWM voltage to output a PWM command voltage; And
A three-level PWM generating step of generating a PWM signal by comparing the PWM command voltage with a carrier signal outputted from a carrier generator and providing the PWM signal to the three-level inverter
Level NPC inverter system having an unbalanced capacitor voltage.

Images