Low-modulation-index operation of a five-level diode-clamped pwm inverter with a DC-voltage-balancing circuit for a motor drive

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3495-3504

  Hasegawa, Kazunori ^a   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor drives; multilevel inverters; voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CONTROL METHODS; COUPLED INDUCTOR; DIODE RECTIFIER; DIODE-CLAMPED; FIVE LEVEL INVERTER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MOTOR DRIVE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; PEAK VALUES; POWER CONVERSION SYSTEMS; POWER-LOSSES; PWM INVERTER; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE BALANCING; ZERO SEQUENCE VOLTAGE;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DIODES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FLUX; REGENERATIVE BRAKING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84860309359     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2185068     Document Type: Article

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