Limits of the neutral-point balance in back-to-back-connected three-level converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 722-731

  Pou, Josep ^a   Pindado, Rafael ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^b   Rodríguez, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active front end; Back to back connection; Multi level; Neutral point balance; Space vector modulation; Three level

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS;

NEUTRAL POINT BALANCE; THREE LEVEL CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 2942612331     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.826528     Document Type: Article

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