Capacitor voltage balance for the neutral-point-clamped converter using the virtual space vector concept with optimized spectral performance

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1128-1135

  Busquets Monge, Sergio ^a   Somavilla, Sergio ^a,b   Bordonau, Josep ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b SECE SA   (Spain)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel; Neutral point voltage balancing; Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Space vector modulation; Three level three phase neutral point clamped (NPC) direct current alternating current (dc ac) converter; Virtual vectors

Indexed keywords

DIRECT CURRENT-ALTERNATING CURRENT CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; POWER FACTOR; VOLTAGE DISTORTION;

CAPACITORS; OPTIMIZATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 34547118344     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.900547     Document Type: Article

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