Voltage balancing control of three-level active NPC converter using SHE-PWM

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 258-267

  Pulikanti, Sridhar R ^a   Dahidah, Mohamed S A ^b   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active neutral point clamped converter (ANPC); neutral point voltage control; pulse width modulation (PWM); selective harmonic elimination (SHE)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC LINK CAPACITOR; DUTY CYCLES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; LOW POWER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; NEUTRAL POINT VOLTAGE CONTROL; NEUTRAL POINTS; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; OUTPUT CURRENT; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SWITCHING ANGLES; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 78650895486     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2010.2063718     Document Type: Article

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