Capacitors voltage balancing modeling in three phase flying capacitor converters with booster

2012 3rd Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technology, PEDSTC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 103-108

  Dargahi, Vahid ^a   Shoulaie, Abbas ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Self balancing; Three Phase Flying Capacitor Multicell Converter; Voltage Balance Booster

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTER; MULTICELL CONVERTERS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SELF-BALANCING; START-UPS; STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION; STATE-SPACE MODELS; STEADY STATE; THREE PHASE; VOLTAGE BALANCE; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84860897568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEDSTC.2012.6183306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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