DC voltage balancing for PWM cascaded H-Bridge converter based STATCOM

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1840-1845

  Barrena, Jon Andoni ^a   Marroyo, Luis ^b   Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel ^a   Alonso, Óscar ^b   Torrealday, José Ramón ^a  

^a MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; MODULATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ANNUAL CONFERENCE; BALANCING PROBLEMS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; H BRIDGES; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; POWER RATINGS; POWER SEMI-CONDUCTOR; STATCOM;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 38349065730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2006.347549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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