Switching losses and harmonic investigations in multilevel inverters

IETE Journal of Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 297-307

  Chaturvedi, Prdyumn K ^a   Jain, Shailendra ^b   Agrawal, Promod ^c   Nema, Rajesh K ^b   Sao, Kaushal K ^d  

^a Mechanical Engineering Department   (India)

^b MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^d Emerson Network Power   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonics; Multilevel inverters; Pulse width modulation; Switching losses; Total harmonic distortion

Indexed keywords

DIODE-CLAMPED; DISTORTED CURRENTS; HARMONICS; HIGH-POWER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; PHASE TOPOLOGY; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION INVERTERS; PWM TECHNIQUES; SIMULATION STUDIES; SWITCHING LOSS; SWITCHING LOSSES; THREE-LEVEL; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; WAVE FILTERS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 68349089175     PISSN: 03772063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0377-2063.44233     Document Type: Article

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