Voltage source converter in high voltage applications: Multilevel versus two-level converters

IET Conference Publications

Volumn 2010, Issue 570 CP, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Yushu ^a   Adam, G P ^a   Lim, T C ^a   Finney, Stephen J ^a   Williams, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacitor voltage balancing strategy; Modular multilevel converter; Sinusoidal pulse width modulation; Twolevel converter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CONVERSION LOSS; CURRENT STRESS; HIGH VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS; LEVEL CONVERTER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATING CONDITION; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING DEVICES; SWITCHING LOSS; TWOLEVEL CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; WAVEFORM QUALITY;

CAPACITORS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79952682628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2010.0995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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