A transformerless D-STATCOM based on a multivoltage cascade converter requiring NO DC sources

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2783-2795

  Sano, Kenichiro ^a   Takasaki, Masahiro ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converter; dc voltage control; silicon carbide device; static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); transformerless converter

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; DC VOLTAGE CONTROL; SILICON CARBIDE DEVICE; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; TRANSFORMERLESS CONVERTER;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ROTARY CONVERTERS; SILICON CARBIDE; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 84859033248     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2174383     Document Type: Article

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