Research on a cascaded multilevel inverter by employing three-phase transformers

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 561-570

  Suresh, Y ^a   Panda, A K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CONTROL STRUCTURE; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; CONVENTIONAL TOPOLOGIES; FILTER SIZES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GRID-CONNECTED; H-BRIDGES; HIGH DEGREE OF FREEDOM; HIGH QUALITY; LOW FREQUENCY; MOTOR DRIVE APPLICATIONS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION PWM; SEVEN-LEVEL; SINGLE DC SOURCE; THREE-PHASE TRANSFORMERS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84862834746     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2011.0150     Document Type: Article

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