Control of a cascade STATCOM with star configuration under unbalanced conditions

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-58

  Song, Qiang ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade multilevel converter; Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); Unbalance operation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; POWER QUALITY; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ACTIVE POWER; CASCADE MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; COMPENSATION CURRENTS; CONTROL SCHEMES; DC SYSTEMS; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TRANSIENTS; INPUT VOLTAGES; NEUTRAL VOLTAGES; OPERATING RANGES; POWER SUPPLIES; POWER SYSTEMS; REFERENCE CURRENTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SINGLE-PHASE SYSTEMS; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); SUPPLY VOLTAGES; TARGET VALUES; UNBALANCE OPERATION; UNBALANCED CONDITIONS;

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 61649088161     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2009172     Document Type: Article

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