A New Bidirectional Three-Phase Neutral Point

Clamped Grid-Connected Converter: Analysis and

Simulation
Christel Enock Ghislain Ogoulola Angelo Jose Junqueira Rezek Robson Bauwelz Gonzatti
Dept. Electrical Engeneering Dept. Electrical Engeneering Dept. Electrical Engeneering
Federal University of Itajuba Federal University of Itajuba Federal University of Itajuba
Itajuba, Brazil Itajuba, Brazil Itajuba, Brazil
christel@unifei.edu.br rezek@unifei.edu.br rbgonzatti@unifei.edu.br

Elio Castro Alfonso Raynel Diaz Santos Francois-Xavier Fifatin

Dept. Electrical Engeneering Dept. Electrical Engeneering Dept. Electrical Engeneering
Techonologic University of Habana Techonologic University of Habana University of Abomey-Calavi
Habana, Cuba Habana, Cuba Abomey-Calavi, Benin
eca@electrica.cujae.edu.cu raynelds@electrica.cujae.edu.cu fifatinf@gmail.com

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Index Terms—neutral point clamped, unit vector generation,
and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
phase locked loop, pulse width modulation
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Please use “soft” (e.g., \eqref{Eq}) cross references “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and “compliment”,
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Please note that the {subequations} environment in An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
LATEX will increment the main equation counter even when
F. Authors and Affiliations
there are no equation numbers displayed. If you forget that,
you might write an article in which the equation numbers skip The class file is designed for, but not limited to, six
from (17) to (20), causing the copy editors to wonder if you’ve authors. A minimum of one author is required for all confer-
discovered a new method of counting. ence articles. Author names should be listed starting from left
BIBTEX does not work by magic. It doesn’t get the biblio- to right and then moving down to the next line. This is the
graphic data from thin air but from .bib files. If you use BIBTEX author sequence that will be used in future citations and by
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LATEX can’t read your mind. If you assign the same label to group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as
a subsubsection and a table, you might find that Table I has possible (for example, do not differentiate among departments
been cross referenced as Table IV-B3. of the same organization).
LATEX does not have precognitive abilities. If you put a
G. Identify the Headings
\label command before the command that updates the
counter it’s supposed to be using, the label will pick up the last Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide the
counter to be cross referenced instead. In particular, a \label reader through your paper. There are two types: component
command should not go before the caption of a figure or a heads and text heads.
table. Component heads identify the different components of
Do not use \nonumber inside the {array} environment. your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
It will not stop equation numbers inside {array} (there Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for
won’t be any anyway) and it might stop a wanted equation these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
number in the surrounding equation. caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you
E. Some Common Mistakes to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
• The word “data” is plural, not singular. provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head from
• The subscript for the permeability of vacuum µ0 , and the text.
other common scientific constants, is zero with subscript Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical
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• In American English, commas, semicolons, periods, ques- because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this
tion and exclamation marks are located within quotation one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next
marks only when a complete thought or name is cited, level head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and,
such as a title or full quotation. When quotation marks conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no
are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to highlight subheads should be introduced.
a word or phrase, punctuation should appear outside of
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at the end of a sentence is punctuated outside of the a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and
closing parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them
is punctuated within the parentheses.) in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the ac-
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert tual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence Sai Use letters for table footnotes.
com i = {1, 2, 3, 4}, Sbj com j = {1, 2, 3, 4} and Sck com Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’ names;
k = {1, 2, 3, 4}. do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been published,
even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
TABLE I cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
TABLE T YPE S TYLES publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only
Table Table Column Head the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead element symbols.
copy More table copya For papers published in translation journals, please give the
a Sample of a Table footnote.
English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
citation [6].
R EFERENCES
[1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
[3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA: Univer-
sity Science, 1989.

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published.
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The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
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“R. B. G. thanks. . .”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the
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R EFERENCES
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The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2]. Refer simply
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or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence:
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