Seven-level cascaded ANPC-based multilevel converter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4575-4582

  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; Flying capacitor voltage control; Multilevel converter; Pulse width modulation; Selective harmonic elimination

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; H-BRIDGE CELLS; LABORATORY SET-UP; LOAD POWER FACTOR; LOW POWER; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SEVEN-LEVEL; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE DC SOURCE; SWITCHING ANGLES; THREE PHASIS; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

CAPACITORS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78650156839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5618414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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