PWM control and experiment of modular multilevel converters

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 154-161

  Hagiwara, Makoto ^a,b   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medium voltage power conversion; Multilevel converters; Voltage balancing control

Indexed keywords

COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; EXPERIMENTS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER GENERATION; POWER TRANSFORMERS; PULSE MODULATION;

CIRCUIT CONFIGURATIONS; EXTERNAL-; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE POWER CONVERSION; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; POWER CONVERSIONS; PWM CONTROL; PWM CONVERTERS; TWO TYPES; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE-BALANCING CONTROL;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 52349122992     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4591917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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