Mathematical analysis and experiment validation of modular multilevel converters

Journal of Power Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-39

  Zhang, Yushu ^a   Adam, Grain Philip ^a   Lim, Tee Chong ^a   Finney, Stephen J ^a   Williams, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacitor ripple and size; Modular multilevel converter; Sinusoidal pulse width modulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; LINEAR RANGE; LOAD POWER FACTOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THREE-LEVEL;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; EXPERIMENTS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84859017948     PISSN: 15982092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2012.12.1.33     Document Type: Article

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