A modular power electronic transformer based on a cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1625-1637

  Iman Eini, H ^a,b   Farhangi, Sh ^a   Schanen, J L ^b   Khakbazan Fard, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b LABORATOIRE D ELECTROTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^c Iran Power Generation Distribution and Transmission Management Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active load current sharing; DC voltage balancing; Modular converters; Power electronic transformer; Power quality

Indexed keywords

AC INPUT; ACTIVE LOAD-CURRENT SHARING; ACTIVE RECTIFIERS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CONSUMER APPLICATIONS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVERTER-CELLS; CRITICAL LOAD; CURRENT-SHARING; DC LINKS; DC VOLTAGE; DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; DEVICE MISMATCH; GALVANIC ISOLATION; INPUT CURRENT; LOAD POWER; LOW VOLTAGES; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULAR CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OUTPUT STAGES; POWER ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER; STEP-DOWN CONVERTER; THREE STAGES; THREE-PHASE INVERTER; VOLTAGE OFFSETS;

DC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHASE INTERFACES;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 70349216327     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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