Minimum power operation of cascade inverter-based dynamic voltage restorer

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 889-898

  Al Hadidi, H K ^a   Gole, A M ^a   Jacobson, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MANITOBA HYDRO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascade inverter; Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR); Mitigation; Multilevel; Optimization; Power factor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; OPTIMIZATION;

CASCADE INVERTER; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 42249111505     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2007.915996     Document Type: Article

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