Performance evaluation of fault-tolerant neutral-point-clamped converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2709-2718

  Ceballos, Salvador ^a   Pou, Josep ^b   Robles, Eider ^a,c   Zaragoza, Jordi ^b   Martin, Jos Lus ^c  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; multilevel converter; neutral point clamped (NPC) converter; reliability; voltage oscillation

Indexed keywords

FAULT-TOLERANT; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGE BALANCING; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC) CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; OPERATION LIMITS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; VOLTAGE OSCILLATION;

POWER ELECTRONICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 77954615301     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2026710     Document Type: Article

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