3-D space modulation with voltage balancing capability for a cascaded seven-level converter in a solid-state transformer

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3778-3789

  She, Xu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Wang, Gangyao ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D space modulation; Cascaded multilevel converter; solid state transformer (SST); voltage balance

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; BIDIRECTIONAL POWER FLOW; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; DC VOLTAGE; DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; FAULT MANAGEMENT; K-V DISTRIBUTION; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; OPERATION MODE; POWER FACTOR CONTROL; RECTIFIER STAGE; SEVEN-LEVEL; SOLID-STATE TRANSFORMER (SST); STABLE OPERATION; UNITY POWER FACTOR; VOLTAGE BALANCE; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; MODULATION; POWER TRANSFORMERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 83455237286     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2142422     Document Type: Article

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