Hybrid flying-capacitor-based active-neutral-point-clamped five-level converter operated with SHE-PWM

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4643-4653

  Pulikanti, Sridhar R ^a   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active neutral point clamped (ANPC) converter; multilevel converter; pulsewidth modulation (PWM); selective harmonic elimination (SHE); static compensator

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC LINK CAPACITOR; FIVE-LEVEL CONVERTER; LOW POWER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; OUTPUT CURRENT; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; POWER SYSTEM COMPUTER AIDED DESIGNS; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; STATIC COMPENSATOR; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; SWITCHING PATTERNS; THREE-LEVEL;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 80052342476     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2106098     Document Type: Article

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