Active-Neutral-Point-Clamped (ANPC) multilevel converter technology

2005 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Barbosa, Peter ^a   Steimer, Peter ^a   Steinke, Jürgen ^a   Winkelnkemper, Manfred ^a   Celanovic, Nikola ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Harmonics; Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters; Power quality; Voltage source inverters (VSIs)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER QUALITY; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

DC OFFSET INJECTION; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS (VSI);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 33947664069     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/epe.2005.219713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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