An n-level flying capacitor based active neutral-point-clamped converter

2nd International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems, PEDG 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 553-558

  Pulikanti, Sridhar R ^a   Konstantinou, Georgios S ^b   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active neutral point clamped converter; Carrier based pulse width modulation; Flying capacitor converter; Multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PULSE; DC LINK CAPACITOR; EXPERIMENTAL WORKS; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; LEVEL LINES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; PHASE ARRANGEMENT; PHASE SHIFTED; SEVEN-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL; WAVE FORMS;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77956534344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEDG.2010.5545745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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