A novel PWM modulation strategy for DC Voltage Balancing in Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel converters

EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1450-1456

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

^a MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; STATCOM

Indexed keywords

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

CASCADED H BRIDGE; CONVERTERS (PAPER INDUSTRY); DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; EVOLUTION (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MODULATION STRATEGIES; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI LEVEL CONVERTERS; POWER RATINGS; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION (RPC); STATCOM (STATIC SHUNT COMPENSATOR); VOLTAGE BALANCING;

MODULATION;

EID: 46149106790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURCON.2007.4400602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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