A Carrier-Based Discontinuous PWM Method With Varying Clamped Area for Vienna Rectifier

The three-level Vienna rectifier is an attractive topology for power factor correction applications. However, for practical high-frequency applications, the nonlinearity caused by snubber circuit and parasitic capacitance of Vienna rectifier's switching device will distort input current. This paper proposes a carrier-based discontinuous space-vector modulation (CB-DSVM) method with varying clamped area for Vienna rectifier in high switching frequency applications. The equivalent circuit of Vienna rectifier considering the nonlinear factors is built and the effect of pulse shaping around current zero-crossing point is investigated. The voltage errors caused by the nonlinearity of switching device will distort terminal voltage, which mainly appears at the zero-crossing time. A DSVM method with the fixed clamped area around the zero-crossing point is proposed to reduce the voltage errors and then the simplified CB-DSVM method with varying clamped area by adding a clamped factor to the judging conditions is further studied, which will reduce low-order harmonics of the CB-DSVM method. Simulations and experiments are carried out in a 600 W Vienna rectifier platform, which demonstrates the validity of the proposed method. Compared with the CB-SVM method, the proposed CB-DSVM method with varying clamped area has comparative neutral-point voltage balancing ability and better input current quality.