Analytical determination of the capacitor voltage balancing dynamics for three phase flying capacitor converters

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1974-1981

  McGrath, B P ^a   Holmes, D G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytic model; Dyamic response; Flying capacitor; Multilevel converter; Natural balance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CONTROL THEORY; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY STORAGE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; ROOT LOCI; STATE SPACE METHODS;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION; ANNUAL MEETINGS; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CIRCUIT MODELING; CONVERTER PERFORMANCE; CONVERTERS (PAPER INDUSTRY); DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; FLYING CAPACITORS; FOURIER COEFFICIENTS; LINEAR ANALYSES; LOW-VOLTAGE (LV); MODULATION STRATEGIES; NEW STRATEGY; NON-LINEAR; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PROTOTYPE CONVERTER; PWM SWITCHING; STATE SPACE MODEL (SSM); STATE SPACES; THREE PHASE; THREE-PHASE CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE BALANCING; WIDE-RANGE;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 47849108218     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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