Natural current balancing of multicell current source converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1239-1246

  McGrath, Brendan Peter ^a   Holmes, Donald Grahame ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current source converter; Double Fourier; Duality; Dynamic model; Flying capacitor; Multilevel converter; Natural balance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INDUCTANCE; PHASE SHIFT; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TOPOLOGY;

CURRENT SOURCE CONVERTER; FLYING CAPACITOR; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NATURAL BALANCE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 44449087347     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.921166     Document Type: Article

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