A 6.6-kV transformerless motor drive using a five-level diode-clamped PWM inverter for energy savings of pumps and blowers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 796-803

  Hatti, Natchpong ^a   Hasegawa, Kazunori ^a   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy savings; Medium voltage drives; Modulation indexes; Multilevel inverters; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SAVINGS; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE DRIVES; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; BLOWERS; COMPRESSORS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; DIODES; DRIVES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); MOTORS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; PUMPS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 67349092271     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2008995     Document Type: Article

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