Investigation of a Cascade Multilevel Inverter as an STATCOM

2003 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 187-193

  Al Hadidi, H K ^a   Menzies, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascade Inverter; Facts; Multilevel; STATCOM

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER TRANSMISSION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TOPOLOGY;

CASCADE INVERTERS; FACTS; MULTILEVEL; STATCOM;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 1542299798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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