Asymmetric cascaded multilevel inverter with charge balance control of a low resolution symmetric subsystem

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2272-2278

  Babaei, Ebrahim ^a   Moeinian, Mohammad Sadegh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cascaded multilevel inverter; Charge balance control method; Losses equalization; Symmetric cascaded multilevel inverter

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CHARGE BALANCES; DC SOURCES; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; DESIGN COSTS; LIFE-TIMES; LOW RESOLUTION; MAINTENANCE COST; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES;

BRIDGES; CONTROL THEORY; COST REDUCTION; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MAINTENANCE; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 77953912494     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2010.03.022     Document Type: Article

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