Control scheme of three-level NPC inverter for integration of renewable energy resources into AC grid

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-253

  Pouresmaeil, Edris ^a   Montesinos Miracle, Daniel ^a   Gomis Bellmunt, Oriol ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed generation (DG) resources; harmonic elimination; multilevel inverters; reactive power compensation; renewable energy; space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM)

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ELIMINATION; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SPACE VECTOR PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; INTEGRATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; REACTIVE POWER;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84861731835     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2011.2162922     Document Type: Article

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