Regulating and equalizing dc capacitance voltages in multilevel STATCOM

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 901-907

  Chen, Yiqiang ^a   Mwinyiwiwa, Bakari ^a   Wolanski, Zbigniew ^a   Ooi, Boon Teck ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced static var compensator; Fundamental frequency method; GTO inverter; Multilevel; Pulse width modulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; EQUALIZERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THYRISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY METHOD; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0031121415     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.584411     Document Type: Article

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