Multilevel optimal modulation and dynamic control strategies for STATCOMs using cascaded multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1937-1946

  Song, Qiang ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a   Yuan, Zhichang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inverters; Pulse width modulation; Static synchronous compensator

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LINEARIZATION; MECHANISMS; POWER QUALITY; REACTIVE POWER; ROBUST CONTROL; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWERS; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CHARGE BALANCES; CLOSED LOOPS; CURRENT STRESSES; DC MAGNETIZATIONS; DIRECT VOLTAGE CONTROLS; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC DISTORTION LEVELS; INVERTERS; MODULATION INDICES; MODULATION STRATEGIES; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK LINEARIZATIONS; OPERATION SCHEMES; OPTIMAL MODULATION STRATEGIES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; SWITCHING DEVICES; SYSTEM UNCERTAINTIES; UTILITY GRIDS;

MODULATION;

EID: 41349114548     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2007.899771     Document Type: Article

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