Evaluation of a multilevel cascaded-type dynamic voltage restorer employing discontinuous space vector modulation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2398-2410

  Massoud, Ahmed M ^a   Ahmed, Shehab ^b   Enjeti, Prasad N ^b   Williams, Barry W ^c  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR); Multilevel inverter; Space vector modulation (SVM)

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORERS; HARMONIC PERFORMANCE; INVERTER SWITCHINGS; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; MULTILEVEL CASCADED INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; SPACE-VECTOR MODULATION;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FUNCTIONS; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MODULATION; VECTOR SPACES; VECTORS;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 77953599226     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2041732     Document Type: Article

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