A modular strategy for control and voltage balancing of cascaded H-bridge rectifiers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2428-2442

  Iman Eini, Hossein ^a,b   Schanen, Jean Luc ^a   Farhangi, Shanrokh ^b   Roudet, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active rectifier; Cascaded H bridge; Multilevel converter; Power factor correction; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; MODULATION; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ACTIVE RECTIFIER; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER-FACTOR CORRECTION; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 57349191091     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2002055     Document Type: Article

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