Current status of multi-megawatt AC drives

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 438-443

  Wu, Bin ^a   Song, Ping Gang ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EAST CHINA JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High power ac drives; High power converters; Multilevel converters; Pulse width modulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

DRIVE CONFIGURATIONS; HIGH-POWER AC DRIVES; HIGH-POWER CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 27944472555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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