Grid interaction of DG units with a modified mixed cascade flying capacitor multicell inverter

2011 2nd Power Electronics, Drive Systems and Technologies Conference, PEDSTC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 350-355

  Dargahi, V ^a   Salehifar, M ^b   Abarzadeh, M ^b   Shoulaie, A ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Double Fourier series; Grid interaction; Multicell inverter

Indexed keywords

DG UNIT; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTER; GRID INTERACTION; MATLAB- SOFTWARE; MULTICELL; NUMBER OF SWITCHES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION RESULT;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

FOURIER SERIES;

EID: 79955699658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEDSTC.2011.5742445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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