Natural capacitor voltage balancing for a flying capacitor converter induction motor drive

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1554-1561

  McGrath, Brendan Peter ^a   Holmes, Donald Grahame ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AC motor drives; Double Fourier series; Dynamic model; Flying capacitor; Multilevel; Power conversion

Indexed keywords

AC MOTOR DRIVES; DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; FLYING CAPACITOR; MULTILEVEL; POWER CONVERSION;

AC MOTORS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CURVE FITTING; DRIVES; DYNAMIC MODELS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC DRIVES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INDUCTION MOTORS; MOTORS; POWER CONVERTERS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 66749151909     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2016567     Document Type: Article

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