Investigation on capacitor voltage regulation in cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters with fundamental frequency switching

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5102-5111

  Sepahvand, Hossein ^a   Liao, Jingsheng ^b   Ferdowsi, Mehdi ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b Donnelly Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor voltage regulation; cascaded H bridge converters; harmonic elimination; multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CHARGE AND DISCHARGE; CONNECTED LOADS; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ELIMINATION; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATING CONDITION; OUTPUT CURRENT; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; SIMPLIFIED FORMULA; SWITCH VOLTAGE; SWITCHING ANGLES; TIME DURATION; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 80052636409     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2130501     Document Type: Article

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