Predictive control of a modular multilevel converter for a back-to-back HVDC system

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1538-1547

  Qin, Jiangchao ^a   Saeedifard, Maryam ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capacitor voltage balancing; circulating current control; high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission; Modular multilevel converter (MMC); predictive control

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CIRCULATING CURRENT; DIRECT-CURRENT; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863006211     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2191577     Document Type: Article

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