Multi carrier PWM of the modular multilevel VSC for medium voltage applications

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2398-2406

  Amankwah, Emmanuel K ^a   Clare, Jon C ^a   Wheeler, Patrick W ^a   Watson, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AC DC converters; capacitor voltage balancing; level shifted modulation; M2LC; medium voltage; multilevel; Phase shifted modulation

Indexed keywords

AC/DC CONVERTERS; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; M2LC; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL; PHASE SHIFTED;

CAPACITORS; EXHIBITIONS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

MODULATION;

EID: 84860211295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2012.6166159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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