Modelling and control of a cascade-multilevel converter-based STATCOM for electric arc furnace flicker mitigation

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 883-888

  Han, Chong ^a   Yang, Zhaoning ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Ingram, Mike ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ARC FURNACE (EAF); GRID POWER QUALITY; TRANSIENT NETWORK ANALYZER (TNA);

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC ARCS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

FURNACES;

EID: 33749654302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1569021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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