Analytical determination of the capacitor voltage balancing dynamics for three-phase flying capacitor converters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1425-1433

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

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Dynamic response; Flying capacitor; Multilevel converter; Natural balance

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION; ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CONVERTER PERFORMANCE; DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; FOURIER COEFFICIENTS; LINEAR ANALYSIS; LOW-VOLTAGE; MODULATION INDEXES; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NATURAL BALANCE; NEW STRATEGY; OPERATING CONDITION; PROTOTYPE CONVERTER; PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION; ROOT-LOCUS; STATE SPACE MODEL; STATE-SPACE MATRICES; SWITCHING SIGNALS; THREE-PHASE CONVERTER; TRANSIENT CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 68249153269     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2023480     Document Type: Article

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