A quasi-resonant soft switching 48-pulse PWM inverter with closed loop current control for the realization of Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC)

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1814-1826

  Ustun, Taha Selim ^a   Mekhilef, Saad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Closed loop PI control; FACTS; H bridge Inverter; Multi pulse; Power flow control; Power line compensation; PWM inverter; SSSC

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549104778     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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