Three-level converter topologies with switch breakdown fault-tolerance capability

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 982-995

  Ceballos, Salvador ^a   Pou, Joseph ^b   Robles, Eider ^a   Gabiola, Igor ^a   Zaragoza, Jordi ^b   Villate, José L ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^c  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Multilevel converter; Neutral point clamped (NPC) converter; Postfault handling reconfiguration; Voltage oscillation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES;

MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC) CONVERTER; POSTFAULT-HANDLING RECONFIGURATION; VOLTAGE OSCILLATION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 41349119870     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.917072     Document Type: Article

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