A transformerless medium-voltage STATCOM topology based on extended modular multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1534-1545

  Mohammadi, H P ^a   Bina, M Tavakoli ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Harmonics; medium voltage large current (MV LC); modular multilevel converters; unbalanced compensation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE COMPENSATION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC LINK CAPACITOR; ELECTRIFIED RAILWAYS; FOUR-LEG; HALF-BRIDGE CONVERTERS; HARMONIC CANCELLATION; HARMONICS; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; SHUNT COMPENSATION; STATCOM; THREE-PHASE CURRENTS; TRANSFORMERLESS; UNBALANCE COMPENSATION;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; TOPOLOGY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84855167160     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2085088     Document Type: Article

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