Power factor improvement of an AC-DC converter via appropriate sPWM technique

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Georgakas, K ^a   Safacas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; POWER CONVERTERS;

AC-DC CONVERTERS; AC-SIDE; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; DC LOAD; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GRID VOLTAGE; HIGH HARMONICS; POWER CONTROLLED; POWER FACTOR; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; POWER FACTOR IMPROVEMENT; RECTIFIER BRIDGES; SWITCHING ELEMENTS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 50249110958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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