Active-power control of individual converter cells for a battery energy storage system based on a multilevel cascade PWM converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1099-1107

  Maharjan, Laxman ^a,b   Yamagishi, Tsukasa ^a,c   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Fuji Electric Europe GmbH   (Germany)

^c MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active power control; battery energy storage systems; multilevel cascade converters; neutral shift

Indexed keywords

BATTERY ENERGY; BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; CHARGE AND DISCHARGE; CONVERTER-CELLS; GRID CONNECTIONS; NEUTRAL SHIFT; POWER LEVELS; POWER-HANDLING CAPABILITY; PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATED; PWM CONVERTER; SMART GRID;

POWER CONTROL; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 84856875480     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2059045     Document Type: Article

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