An SVM algorithm to balance the capacitor voltages of the three-level NPC active power filter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2694-2702

  Zhang, Huibin ^a   Finney, Stephen Jon ^a   Massoud, Ahmed ^a   Williams, Barry Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacitor voltage ripple; Neutral point diodeclamped (NPC); Space vector modulation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; ALGORITHMS; CAPACITANCE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION; VECTORS;

ACTIVE POWER FILTERS; AVERAGE ENERGIES; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE RIPPLE; DC LINKS; DC-LINK CAPACITORS; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; MODULATION CYCLES; NEUTRAL POINT DIODECLAMPED (NPC); SPACE VECTOR MODULATION; SVM ALGORITHMS; THREE-LEVEL; VECTOR STATE; VOLTAGE RATINGS; VOLTAGE RIPPLES; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 59749101919     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2002820     Document Type: Article

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