Research on the voltage unbalance of DC capacitors of cascade STATCOM. Part one: Simulations and experiments

Dianli Xitong Zidonghua/Automation of Electric Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 53-57+86

  Geng, Juncheng ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a   Yuan, Zhichang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade multilevel inverter; DC capacitor voltage unbalance; Simulation; Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC MACHINERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; DC CAPACITORS VOLTAGE UNBALANCE; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR;

SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

EID: 0242691207     PISSN: 10001026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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