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    					| A New Modular Multilevel Converter with Single Arm Inductor <br/>and Its Control Strategies | 
  					 
  					  										
						| Lei Ming, Li Yaohua, Ge Qiongxuan, Wang Xiaoxin | 
					 
															
						Key Laboratory of Power Electronics and Electric Drive Institute of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China | 
					 
										
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													     		                            						                            																	    Abstract  A new modular multilevel converter (MMC) with single arm inductor is proposed, and compared to the conventional MMC topology one arm inductor is saved per each phase. To this asymmetric converter, a control method is proposed. Taking the MMC without lower arm inductors for example, a virtual arm inductor voltage is added to the reference voltage of cascaded modules in lower arm to make the converter symmetrically operating. And combined to circulating current restraint algorithm, a complete control block diagram is presented. At last experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies.
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															    																	Received: 11 July 2013
																	    
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