Capacitors natural voltage balancing mechanism investigation in flying capacitor multicell converters

2011 19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dargahi, Vahid ^a   Shoulaie, Abbas ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Double Fourier Series; Flying Capacitor Multicell Converter; Self balancing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS; DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SELF-BALANCING; SIMULATION RESULT; STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION; STEADY STATE; TIME DOMAIN; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; POWER CONVERTERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 80051950940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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