Improved Hexagram inverter for medium-voltage variable speed drive

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3266-3271

  Wen, Jun ^a   Zhou, Liang ^a   Smedley, Keyue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CIRCULATING CURRENTS; COUPLED INDUCTORS; HEXAGRAM INVERTERS; IN-BETWEEN; MEDIUM VOLTAGES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; VARIABLE-SPEED; VOLTAGE DROPS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 63149192884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2008.4758483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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