Control schemes for equalization of capacitor voltages in neutral clamped shunt compensator

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 538-544

  Mishra, Mahesh K ^a   Joshi, Avinash ^a   Ghosh, Arindam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Active shunt compensators; Chopper control; dc load; Voltage equalization; Voltage imbalance

Indexed keywords

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYSTERESIS;

SHUNT COMPENSATORS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 0037398927     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2003.809684     Document Type: Article

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