A carrier-based PWM scheme for neutral-point voltage balancing in three-level inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1734-1743

  Tallam, Rangarajan M ^a   Naik, Rajendra ^b   Nondahl, Thomas A ^c  

^a ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (United States)

^b General Electric Company India   (India)

^c Advanced Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier based pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Neutral point voltage balancing; Space vector PWM; Three level inverter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC MOTORS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CARRIER-BASED PULSEWIDTH MODULATION; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGE BALANCING; POWER FLOW; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 29244478368     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2005.858283     Document Type: Article

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