Multilevel active NPC converter for filterless grid-connection for large wind turbines

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4583-4588

  Li, Jun ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhashish ^a   Lukic, Srdjan ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; FILTER-LESS; FLOATING CAPACITOR; GRID CONNECTIONS; HARMONICS LIMITS; HYBRID CONCEPTS; LARGE WIND TURBINES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATION AND CONTROL; PASSIVE GRID; POWER DENSITIES; SIMULATION RESULT; UTILITY INTERFACE;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77951560597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5414863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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