Steady-state analysis of interaction between harmonic components of arm and line quantities of modular multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-68

  Ilves, Kalle ^a   Antonopoulos, Antonios ^a   Norrga, Staffan ^a   Nee, Hans Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analytical steady state model; arm currents; experimental results; modular multilevel converter; phase leg resonance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CIRCULATING CURRENT; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; LEAST-SQUARE FITTING; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE MODELS; SUBMODULES;

CAPACITORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 83755187987     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2159809     Document Type: Article

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