Natural balancing of series-stacked power quality conditioners

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 198-207

  Mouton, Hendrik Du T ^a   Enslin, Johan H R ^b   Akagi, Hirofumi ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b KEMA   (Netherlands)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balancing theory; Multilevel converter; Series injection device; Series stacked converter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INDUCTANCE; SWITCHING;

NATURAL BALANCING; SERIES-STACKED POWER QUALITY CONDITIONERS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 0037258909     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2002.807148     Document Type: Article

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