New approach in back-to-back m-level diode-clamped multilevel converter modelling and direct current bus voltages balancing

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 578-589

  Chaves, M ^a,b   Margato, E ^a,b   Silva, J F ^b,c   Pinto, S F ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Center for Innovation in Electrical and Energy Engineering CIEEE   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC LOAD; AVERAGE POWER; BACK-TO-BACK CONVERTER; BIDIRECTIONAL POWER FLOW; BUS CAPACITORS; BUS VOLTAGE; DIODE-CLAMPED; DIRECT CURRENT; FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; GRID INTERFACES; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-VOLTAGES; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INDUCTION MACHINES; LOW DISTORTION; MULTI-LEVEL STRUCTURES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEW APPROACHES; POWER GRIDS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SELF - EXCITED; SWITCHING LOSS;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78651563963     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2009.0074     Document Type: Article

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