Reduction of dc voltage sources and switches in asymmetrical multilevel converters using a novel topology

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1073-1085

  Babaei, E ^a   Hosseini, S H ^a   Gharehpetian, G B ^b   Haque, M Tarafdar ^a   Sabahi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical converters; Bi directional switch; DVR; Multilevel converters; Power quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER QUALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

ASYMMETRICAL CONVERTERS; BI DIRECTIONAL SWITCH; DVR; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33947625085     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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