A new carrier-based PWM providing common-mode-current reduction and DC-bus balancing for three-level inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3001-3011

  Videt, Arnaud ^a   Le Moigne, Philippe ^a   Idir, Nadir ^b   Baudesson, Philippe ^c   Cimetière, Xavier ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe   (France)

Author keywords

Common mode currents; Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC); Neutral point clamped (NPC) inverters; Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Variable speed drives

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETISM;

COMMON-MODE CURRENTS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED INVERTERS; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; ELECTRIC DRIVES;

ADJUSTABLE-SPEED DRIVES; CARRIER BASED PWM; COMMON MODE CURRENTS; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; CONDUCTED EMISSIONS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; HIGH-VOLTAGES; NEUTRAL POINTS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED INVERTERS; STRAY CAPACITANCES; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

EID: 36249030405     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.907001     Document Type: Article

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