A theoretical study of neutral point voltage balancing problem in three-level neutral-point-clamped PWM VSI

Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 80-86

  Jiang, Weidong ^a   Wang, Qunjing ^a,b   Chen, Quan ^a,b   Hu, Cungang ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BALANCING; ELECTRIC MACHINERY;

CURRENT VECTORS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW-FREQUENCY; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGE BALANCING; POWER FACTORS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; VOLTAGE VECTORS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 50049087701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEMS12746.2007.4412144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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