Controlling the AC-side voltage waveform in a modular multilevel converter with low energy-storage capability

Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ilves, Kalle ^a   Antonopoulos, Antonios ^a   Norrga, Staffan ^a   Ängquist, Lennart ^a   Nee, Hans Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Converter control; Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

AC-SIDE; ADVERSE EFFECT; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CIRCULATING CURRENT; CONVERTER CONTROLS; ENERGY VARIATIONS; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NOMINAL OPERATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; OUTPUT POWER; STABILIZING CONTROLLERS; STABLE OPERATION; STORAGE CAPABILITY; STORED ENERGY; SUBMODULES; VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS; VOLTAGE VARIATION; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

CAPACITORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 80053483246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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