A novel approach for DC-link voltage ripple reduction in cascaded multilevel converters

International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2006. SPEEDAM 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 571-576

  Carpaneto, M ^a   Maragliano, G ^a   Marchesoni, M ^a   Vaccaro, L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boost converter; Cascade multilevel converter; Dc link filter reduction; Medium voltage drives

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; DC MACHINERY; DIODES; ELECTRIC FILTERS; SWITCHING THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

BOOST CONVERTERS; CASCADE MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; DC-LINK FILTER REDUCTION; MEDIUM VOLTAGE DRIVES;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33845578972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM.2006.1649837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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