New method for estimating flying capacitor voltages in stacked multicell and flying capacitor multicell converters

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science C

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 654-662

  Khoshkbar Sadigh, Arash ^a   Gharehpetian, Gevorg B ^b   Hosseini, Seyed Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flying capacitor multicell converter; Flying capacitor voltage; Phase shifted sinusoidal pulse width modulation; Stacked multicell converter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; DISCRETE-TIME MODEL; ESTIMATION STRATEGIES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTER; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; LOAD CURRENTS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTICELL; MULTICELL CONVERTERS; NEW STRATEGY; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE SHIFTED; PSCAD/EMTDC; SIMULATION RESULT; STACKED MULTICELL CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SENSOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTERS (FCM); MULTI-CELL CONVERTERS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; STACKED MULTICELL CONVERTERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; PHASE SHIFT; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SENSORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77957008736     PISSN: 18691951     EISSN: 1869196X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.C0910559     Document Type: Article

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