Operation of a modular multilevel converter with selective harmonic elimination PWM

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 999-1004

  Konstantinou, Georgios S ^a   Ciobotaru, Mihai ^a   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Modular multilevel converter (MMC); pulse width modulation (PWM); selective harmonic elimination (SHE); voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CURRENT OUTPUT; EXPANDABILITY; HALF-BRIDGE; HIGH QUALITY; LOW POWER; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (PWM); SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION (SHE); SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION PWM; SUBMODULES; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 80052088362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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