A transformerless hybrid active filter using a three-level Pulsewidth Modulation (PWM) converter for a medium-voltage motor drive

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1365-1374

  Akagi, Hirofumi ^a   Kondo, Ryota ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active filters; Harmonic mitigation; Hybrid filters; Motor drives; Passive filters

Indexed keywords

DC CAPACITOR; DIODE RECTIFIER; ENERGY SAVING; FRONT END; HARMONIC FILTERING; HARMONIC FREQUENCY; HARMONIC MITIGATION; HYBRID ACTIVE FILTERS; HYBRID FILTERS; LINE HARMONICS; LOAD CONDITION; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MOTOR DRIVE; MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM; MOTOR DRIVES; PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATED; PULSEWIDTH MODULATION CONVERTERS; REGENERATIVE BRAKING; THREE-LEVEL; TRANSFORMERLESS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

ACTIVE FILTERS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RADIO SYSTEMS;

PASSIVE FILTERS;

EID: 77952278934     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2040002     Document Type: Article

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