ETO light multilevel inverter for STATCOM

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3246-3251

  Liu, Yu ^a   Doss, Shoubhik ^a   Song, Wenchao ^a   Chen, Qian ^a   Mundkur, Sameer Shailesh ^a   Zhao, Tiefu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhashish ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; INNOVATION; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; COMPLETE CONTROLS; DC CAPACITORS; EMITTER TURN-OFF THYRISTORS; H BRIDGES; HARMONIC CONSTRAINTS; MODULAR DESIGNS; MODULATION STRATEGIES; MULTI-LAYER PROTECTIONS; MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; OPTIMAL COMBINATIONS; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; SWITCHING DEVICES; TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 63149086190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2008.4758480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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