A 1.5-MW seven-cell series-stacked converter as an active power filter and regeneration converter for a dc traction substation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2230-2236

  Henning, Pieter ^a   Fuchs, Heinrich D ^a   Le Roux, Abraham D ^a   Mouton, Hendrik du T ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Active power filter (APF); Dc traction; Multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; LOCOMOTIVES; POWER CONVERTERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAILROAD CARS; TRACTION (FRICTION); WAVE FILTERS;

A TRAINS; AC NETWORKS; ACTIVE POWER FILTER (APF); ACTIVE POWER FILTERS; ACTIVE POWERS; CONVERTER SYSTEMS; DC TRACTION; ELECTRIC TRAINS; INSTANTANEOUS REACTIVE POWER THEORIES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; REGENERATIVE BRAKING; SWITCHING SCHEMES; TO SWITCHES; TRACTION SUBSTATIONS;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 57349109314     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2001882     Document Type: Article

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