Hexagram inverter for medium-voltage six-phase variable-speed drives

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2473-2481

  Wen, Jun ^a   Smedley, Keyue Ma ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

AC motor drives; Inverters; Multilevel systems; Power conversion

Indexed keywords

AC MOTOR DRIVES; CASCADED H BRIDGES; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; CURRENT STRESS; HEXAGRAM INVERTERS; INVERTERS; MEDIUM VOLTAGES; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; OUTPUT POWER; POWER CONVERSION; POWER SHARING; SIX-PHASE; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS; VARIABLE-SPEED; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS; VOLTAGE STRESS; VOLTAGE UNBALANCES;

AC MOTORS; APPLICATIONS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MOTORS; POWER CONVERTERS;

DRIVES;

EID: 65449159440     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.921475     Document Type: Article

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