A five/nine-level twelve-switch neutral point clamped inverter for high speed electric drives

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2333-2340

  Ewanchuk, Jeffrey ^a   Salmon, John ^a   Vafakhah, Behzad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC motor drives; DC AC power conversion; Multi level systems; Pulse width modulated inverters

Indexed keywords

AC MOTOR DRIVES; COUPLED INDUCTOR; DC LINKS; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; DC/AC POWER CONVERSION; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC MACHINES; HARMONIC QUALITY; HIGH SPEED; INDUCTION MACHINES; INVERTER OPERATIONS; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; LEAKAGE REACTANCE; MACHINE PERFORMANCE; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATED INVERTER; PWM TECHNIQUES; SPECIFIC DESIGN; THREE PHASE; THREE-LIMB CORE; TRANSIENT PERFORMANCE; VOLTAGE BLOCKING;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; AC MOTORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ENERGY CONVERSION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 78650145257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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