ABSTRACT: The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years. The three-phase three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) rectifier attracts more and more engineers' attention due to it has many advantages: sinusoidal input current which contains low harmonics, unity power factor, bidirectional power flow, low voltage and switching loss for each switch and so on. It could potentially provide DC power to medium voltage DC distribution system on ships. A NPC rectifier system is introduced in this thesis and the hardware test bed for validating is built successfully. Base on the topology of NPC rectifier, the PWM math model in ABC stationary frame is set up first. In order to obtain constant control variables as in DC motor control, the NPC rectifier PWM math model in DQ0 reference frame is built. And then for design the control loop, the NPC rectifier average models are developed in both ABC stationary frame and DQ0 reference frame.
ABSTRACT: The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years.