Loss comparison of two and three-level inverter topologies

IET Conference Publications

Volumn 2010, Issue 563 CP, 2010, Pages

  Orfanoudakis, G I ^a   Sharkh, S M ^a   Yuratich, M A ^b   Abusara, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b One Ropley Business Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DC link capacitors; Inverter; Losses

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CURRENT RATING; DC LINK CAPACITOR; INVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED INVERTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LOSS; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGY; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TOPOLOGY;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77956078707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2010.0172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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