This paper presents an efficiency comparison between silicon-carbide technology and silicon technology. In order to achieve this, the efficiency of an active neutral-point clamped converter built up with silicon carbide ...

A method to develop Entrepreneurship Education in any regular Engineering course is presented. The method is based in a team of students working on the description of the idea for the development of a real start-up using ...

This article presents detailed Markov models for the reliability assessment of multilevel neutral-point-clamped (NPC) converter leg topologies, incorporating their inherent fault-tolerance under open-circuit switch faults. ...

Thanks to the inherent redundancy to generate the different output voltage levels, the multilevel active clamped (MAC) topology presents an important fault-tolerance ability which makes it interesting for several applications. ...

This paper deals with generic design and implementation of multi-cell multi-level multi-phase voltage source inverters. Based on a well-known topology, the paper focuses on place and route design to enable V and/or I ...

This paper studies a multilevel multiphase dc-ac conversion system configured by a neutral-point-clamped converter fed by multiple battery packs connected in series. A virtual-vector modulation is selected and a state-of-charge ...

Predictive current control is applied to a wind energy conversion system implemented with a permanent-magnet synchronous generator connected to the grid through a back-toback neutral-point-clamped converter. This control ...