Predictive Current Control for a Neutral Point Clamped Inverter Considering SiC-MOSFET as Switches and Using a Photovoltaic Power Source

This paper proposes a predictive current control of a three-phase 3-level neutral point clamped (3L-NPC) inverter. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effects of the DC LINK voltage on the output of the 3L-NPC on a specific class of power semiconductor, namely SiC-MOSFET. The power source of the DC LINK is a photovoltaic array, the process to choose the number of series panels is a heuristic method. All analyses and results were conducted through simulations, using Matlab/Simulink.