Five-level diode-clamped PWM converters connected back-to-back for motor drives

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1268-1276

  Hatti, Natchpong ^a   Kondo, Yosuke ^b   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medium voltage drives; Multilevel inverters; Neutral point clamped converters; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); COUNTING CIRCUITS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DRIVES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY STORAGE; INDUCTION MOTORS; MODULATION; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

BUCK-BOOST; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CARRIER FREQUENCIES; DIODE-CLAMPED; LEVEL CONVERTERS; LINE CURRENTS; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE DRIVES; MOTOR CURRENTS; MOTOR DRIVES; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTERS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PWM CONVERTERS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATION; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; TRANSFORMERLESS; VOLTAGE BALANCING; WAVEFORMS;

MOTORS;

EID: 49249091643     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.926290     Document Type: Article

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