Fault detection and mitigation in multilevel converter STATCOMs

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1307-1315

  Yazdani, Atousa ^a   Sepahvand, Hossein ^b   Crow, Mariesa L ^b   Ferdowsi, Mehdi ^b  

^a QUANTA TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault detection; multilevel converter; static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; HARMONIC INJECTION; LOWER SWITCHING LOSS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NUMBER OF SWITCHES; OFFLINE; POWER SYSTEMS; SINGLE SWITCH; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); SWITCH FAILURE; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

FAULT DETECTION;

SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 79952639210     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2050415     Document Type: Article

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