Hexagram rectifier-active front end of hexagram inverter for medium-voltage variable-speed drives

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3014-3024

  Wen, Jun ^a   Smedley, Keyue ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel systems; Pulsewidth modulated (PWM) power converters; Rectifiers; Variable speed drives (VSDs)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; DRIVES; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SPEED;

ACTIVE FRONT ENDS; CONTROL SCHEMES; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPES; HEXAGRAM INVERTERS; MEDIUM VOLTAGES; MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; ONE-CYCLE CONTROLS; OUTPUT POWER; PULSEWIDTH-MODULATED (PWM) POWER CONVERTERS; RECTIFIERS; SIMULATION MODELS; SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS; UNITY POWER FACTORS; VARIABLE-SPEED DRIVES (VSDS); VOLTAGE STRESS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 59749085763     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2005059     Document Type: Article

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