Control of neutral point and flying capacitor voltages in five-level SHE-PWM controlled ANPC converter

2009 4th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 172-177

  Pulikanti, Sridhar R ^a   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active neutral point clamped converter; Flying capacitor converter; Neutral point clamped converter; Pulse width modulation; Selective harmonic elimination

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTER; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC LINK CAPACITOR; DC-LINK; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; LOAD CURRENTS; MATLAB /SIMULINK; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINTS; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LOSS; SIMULATED DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION RESULT; SWITCHING ANGLES;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 70349335780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIEA.2009.5138191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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