Analytical modeling of a square-wave-controlled cascaded multilevel STATCOM

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2261-2269

  Sternberger, Ronny ^a   Jovcic, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modeling; Multilevel converter; State space methods; Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); Static VAR compensators

Indexed keywords

AC SYSTEMS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL MODELING; CASCADED CONVERTERS; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROLLER GAIN; CONTROLLER MODELS; DEVELOPED MODEL; DIGITAL SIMULATION; DQ-FRAME; EQUIVALENT CAPACITANCE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INTERNAL FEEDBACK; MODELING; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NON-LINEAR; PRACTICAL STABILITY; PSCAD/EMTDC; REAL POWER; SQUARE WAVES; SQUARE-WAVE; STATCOM; STATE-SPACE MODELS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); STATIC VAR COMPENSATORS; SUB-SYNCHRONOUS; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

CONTROLLERS; DAMPING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MATLAB; MODEL STRUCTURES; ROOT LOCI; STATE SPACE METHODS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 70350335600     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2021045     Document Type: Article

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