Cascaded multilevel inverter based STATCOM with power factor correction feature

2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization Development in Engineering and Technology, STUDENT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 12-18

  Haw, Law Kah ^a   Dahidah, Mohamed ^a   Mariun, Norman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

carrier based pulse width modulation (CB PWM); Cascade multilevel inverter (CMI); flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS); static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); voltage source converter (VSC).

Indexed keywords

CARRIER BASED PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (CB-PWM); CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER (CMI); FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTER (VSC).;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; MATLAB; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; REACTIVE POWER; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 83755172095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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