Capacitor voltage balancing using redundant states of space vector modulation for five-level diode clamped inverters

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 292-313

  Hotait, H A ^a   Massoud, A M ^b   Finney, S J ^a   Williams, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCING TECHNIQUES; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; DC LINK CAPACITOR; DIODE-CLAMPED INVERTER; DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; DWELL TIME; FIVE LEVEL INVERTER; HIGH POWER FACTOR; MODULATION INDEXES; OVER MODULATION; POWER FACTORS; SPACE VECTOR MODULATION; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SWITCHING SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; VECTORS;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 78651585699     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2008.0327     Document Type: Article

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