DC bus voltage equalization in single-phase split-capacitor three-level neutral-point-clamped half-bridge inverters for PV applications

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 931-938

  Petrella, Roberto ^a   Buonocunto, Nicola ^b   Revelant, Alessandro ^b   Stocco, Piero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b MetaSystem Energy ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC COMPONENTS; DC CURRENT; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; EQUALIZATION STRATEGY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GRID CURRENT; GRID VOLTAGE; HALF BRIDGE INVERTER; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONIC CURRENTS; OUTPUT CURRENT; OUTPUT CURRENT CONTROL; POWER STAGE; PV INVERTER; REFERENCE CURRENTS; STABILITY PROBLEM; THREE-LEVEL;

CAPACITORS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955756097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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