A comprehensive study of neutral-point self-balancing effect in neutral-point-clamped three-level inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3084-3095

  Shen, Jie ^a,b   Schröder, Stefan ^a   Rösner, Robert ^c   El Barbari, Said ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center of Excellence for Controls and Power Electronics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neutral point (NP) control; neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter; self balancing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL METHODS; BALANCING PROBLEMS; COMMONMODE; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DIFFERENTIAL MODE; DUTY CYCLES; EXISTING SYSTEMS; HARMONIC CURRENT INJECTION; HIGH-POWER; NEUTRAL POINTS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC) INVERTER; POWER FACTORS; REAL APPLICATIONS; SELF-BALANCED; SELF-BALANCING; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 82155188548     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2138161     Document Type: Article

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