Theoretical analysis of a five-level voltage source modular inverter for renewable energy applications

Proceedings of the 9th IASTED European Conference on Power and Energy Systems, EuroPES 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 173-180

  Adam, Grain P ^a   Anaya Lara, Olimpo ^a   Burt, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel inverter; Diode clamped inverter; Modular inverter and sinusoidal pulse width modulation

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; DIODE CLAMPED INVERTER; LOAD POWER FACTOR; MATLAB-SIMULINK; MODULATION INDEXES; RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; STORAGE SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL BASIS; UTILITY INTERFACE; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE SOURCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 77953974024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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