Analysis of the power balance in the cells of a multilevel cascaded H-bridge converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2287-2296

  Vazquez, Sergio ^a   Leon, Jose I ^a   Carrasco, Juan M ^a   Franquelo, Leopoldo G ^a   Galvan, Eduardo ^a   Reyes, Manuel ^a   Sanchez, Juan A ^a   Dominguez, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cascaded converters; Multilevel systems

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CASCADED CONVERTERS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER BALANCE; POWER CONVERTER TOPOLOGY; SIMULATION RESULT; STABLE OPERATION; STEADY-STATE POWER;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77953596990     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2034679     Document Type: Article

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