Voltage balancing control and experiments of a novel modular multilevel converter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3691-3696

  Wang, Kui ^a   Li, Yongdong ^a   Zheng, Zedong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basic cell; Floating capacitor; Modular multilevel converter (MMC); Voltage balancing control

Indexed keywords

BASIC CELL; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CURRENT DIRECTION; FLOATING CAPACITOR; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGY; PWM MODE; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PAPER CAPACITORS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; TOPOLOGY; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 78650146302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5618344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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