Capacitor voltage balancing control based on CPS-PWM of modular multilevel converter

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition: Energy Conversion Innovation for a Clean Energy Future, ECCE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4029-4034

  Li, Xiaoqian ^a   Song, Qiang ^a   Li, Jianguo ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capacitor Voltage Balancing Control; CPS PWM; Modular Multilevel Converter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CPS-PWM; DC CAPACITOR; DC VOLTAGE; DYNAMIC STATE; HIGH-CAPACITY; HIGH-VOLTAGE DIRECT-CURRENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VSC-HVDC;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER CONVERTERS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 81855161384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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