A new control strategy to balance neutral-point voltage in three-level NPC inverter

8th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia: "Green World with Power Electronics", ICPE 2011-ECCE Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2593-2597

  Lin, Xinchun ^a   Gao, Shan ^a   Li, Jinda ^a   Lei, He ^a   Kang, Yong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

low frequency voltage ripples; PR controller; SVPWM; three level NPC inverter; voltage drifts

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; HIGH-POWER; LOW FREQUENCY; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; NPC INVERTERS; SVPWM; SWITCHING STRATEGIES; THREE LEVEL NPC INVERTER; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE DRIFT; VOLTAGE DRIFTS; VOLTAGE RIPPLES;

CONTROLLERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 80052079563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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