Analysis and control of a modular MV -to-LV rectifier based on a cascaded multilevel converter

Journal of Power Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-145

  Iman Eini, Hossein ^a   Farhangi, Shahrokh ^a   Khakbazan Fard, Mahboubeh ^b   Schanen, Jean Luc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Iran Power Generation Distribution and Transmission Management Company   (Iran)

^c LABORATOIRE D ELECTROTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Active load current sharing; Cascaded H bridge rectifier; Parallel output converters; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349095102     PISSN: 15982092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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