Fundamental frequency switching strategies of a seven-level hybrid cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-33

  Du, Zhong ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^b   Ozpineci, Burak ^b   Chiasson, John N ^c  

^a PARKER HANNIFIN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental frequency modulation control; Hybrid cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter (HCMLI); Triplen harmonic compensation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUEL CELLS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SWITCHING;

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; DC POWER; DC POWER SUPPLIES; DC SOURCES; DC VOLTAGE LEVELS; FUEL CELL STACKS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY MODULATION CONTROL; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; HIGH QUALITIES; HIGH-POWER; HYBRID CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL INVERTER (HCMLI); MODULATION INDEXES; OUTPUT LEVELS; OUTPUT POWER; SEVEN LEVELS; SINGLE DC SOURCES; SINUSOIDAL OUTPUTS; TRIPLEN HARMONIC COMPENSATION;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 61649105559     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2006678     Document Type: Article

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