Using a cascaded H-bridge STATCOM for rebalancing unbalanced voltages

7th Internatonal Conference on Power Electronics, ICPE'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1219-1224

  Betz, R E ^a   Summers, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; POWER ELECTRONICS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

AVERAGE POWER; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; PHASE CLUSTERS; POWER UNBALANCE; THREE PHASE; UNBALANCED VOLTAGES;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS;

EID: 58149096614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2007.4692571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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