Small-signal model-based control strategy for balancing individual DC capacitor voltages in cascade multilevel inverter-based STATCOM

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2259-2269

  Liu, Yu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Song, Wenchao ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhashish ^a   Tan, Guojun ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Multilevel converters; Reactive power; Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC CAPACITOR; DC VOLTAGE; FEEDBACK CONTROL STRATEGIES; H-BRIDGES; KEY PARTS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; OPERATION MODE; PARAMETER VARIATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SMALL SIGNAL MODEL; STANDBY MODE; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); SWITCHING PATTERNS; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE QUALITY;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FEEDBACK; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; REACTIVE POWER; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 67649366309     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2017101     Document Type: Article

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