The invention discloses a rapid
voltage-sharing method for a cascaded multilevel converter, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining all switching tube drive signals of each submodule after a bridge arm reference
voltage modulation wave
signal of the cascaded multilevel converter is compared with a phase-shifting triangular carrier; and performing logic AND operation on the driving signals outputting the positive level in all the sub-modules, adding the driving signals outputting the positive level to obtain a positive
level number output by the bridge arm, performing logic AND operationon the driving signals outputting the negative level in all the sub-modules, adding the driving signals outputting the negative level to obtain a negative
level number output by the bridge arm, and outputting zero level by the remaining sub-modules; according to the number of the bridge arm positive and negative level output modules, carrying out sorting and
voltage-sharing control, thereby finally achieving the effect of bridge arm
capacitor voltage rapid
equalization, and solving the problems that the
carrier phase shift control voltage-sharing speed is low and the
harmonic content of outputcurrent of a traditional sorting and voltage-sharing method is high when the number of sub-modules is small. According to the method, the
capacitor voltage of the sub-module is rapidly balanced, thebridge arm is ensured to have high equivalent
switching frequency, and the current
harmonic content of the
alternating current side is ensured to be low.