A carrier-based PWM strategy with zero-sequence voltage injection for a three-level neutral-point-clamped converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 642-651

  Pou, Josep ^a   Zaragoza, Jordi ^a   Ceballos, Salvador ^b   Saeedifard, Maryam ^c   Boroyevich, Dushan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier based pulsewidth modulation (CB PWM); space vector modulation (SVM) strategy; three level neutral point clamped (NPC) converter

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL CONTROL; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CARRIER BASED PWM; CARRIER-BASED PULSEWIDTH MODULATION; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING TIME; DC LINK CAPACITOR; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; LOW FREQUENCY; MATLAB/SIMULINK ENVIRONMENT; NEUTRAL POINTS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; REDUCED SWITCHING; SALIENT FEATURES; SPACE-VECTOR MODULATION; SWITCHING LOSS; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; VOLTAGE OSCILLATION; ZERO SEQUENCE VOLTAGE;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTOR SPACES;

COUNTING CIRCUITS;

EID: 84855698977     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2050783     Document Type: Article

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