Analysis of DC-link capacitor losses in three-level Neutral Point Clamped and Cascaded H-Bridge voltage source inverters

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 664-669

  Orfanoudakis, Georgios I ^a   Sharkh, Suleiman M ^a   Yuratich, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b One Ropley Business Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR CURRENT; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTERS; DC LINK CAPACITOR; LOSS ESTIMATION; NPC INVERTERS; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

CAPACITORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; POWER CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 78650317039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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