Selective harmonic elimination for multilevel inverters with unbalanced DC inputs

5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 773-778

  Ahmadi, Damoun ^a   Wang, Jin ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Equal area criteria; Modulation index; Pulse width modulation; Total harmonic distortion; Unbalanced multilevel inverters

Indexed keywords

DC VOLTAGE; EQUAL AREA CRITERIA; EQUATION BASED; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONICS INJECTION; HIGH VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS; MODIFIED EQUATION; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SELECTIVE HARMONICS ELIMINATIONS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; UNBALANCED CONDITION; VOLTAGE LEVELS; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; PROPULSION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; WAVE FILTERS;

MODULATION;

EID: 72149097846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VPPC.2009.5289771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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