Capacitor voltage-balancing techniques for a multipulse rectifier with active injection

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 185-198

  Araujo Vargas, Ismael ^a   Forsyth, Andrew J ^b   Chivite Zabalza, F Javier ^c  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Ingeteam Technology SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active injection; high power factor rectification; More Electric Aircraft (MEA); pulse width modulation; three phase multipulse rectifier

Indexed keywords

12-PULSE RECTIFIER; 24-PULSE; ACTIVE INJECTION; BALANCING TECHNIQUES; BIDIRECTIONAL SWITCH; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; FILTER CAPACITORS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH-POWER; MORE ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT; MULTI-LEVEL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; MULTI-PULSE RECTIFIERS; PRACTICAL ISSUES;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; JET PUMPS; MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 78751661311     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2091475     Document Type: Article

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