Capacitor voltage balance limits in a multilevel-converter-based energy storage system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Burusteta, Sendoa ^a   Pou, Josep ^b   Ceballos, Salvador ^a   Marino, Iker ^a   Alzola, José Ángel ^a  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Converter control; Energy storage; Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters; Renewable energy systems

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCE; CONVERTER CONTROLS; DC LINK CAPACITOR; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; GRID-CONNECTED; MODULATION ALGORITHM; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED INVERTERS; OPERATING AREA; POWER CONVERSION SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; THREE-LEVEL DC-DC CONVERTER; VOLTAGE BALANCE; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY STORAGE; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER ELECTRONICS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 80053556500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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