Transformerless hybrid topology for medium-voltage reactive-power compensation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1469-1479

  Sahu, Malaya Kumar ^a   Poddar, Gautam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Hybrid converter; medium voltage converter; natural voltage balanced converter; var compensator

Indexed keywords

CONTROL APPLICATIONS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; HARMONIC VOLTAGES; HIGH-VOLTAGE INVERTER; HYBRID CONVERTERS; HYBRID TOPOLOGIES; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; NATURAL VOLTAGE BALANCED CONVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; REACTIVE CURRENTS; SCALE-DOWN; SQUARE WAVE INVERTER; SWITCHING STRATEGIES; TRANSFORMERLESS; VAR COMPENSATORS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 79959532001     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2070082     Document Type: Article

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