Analysis of voltage balancing limits in modular multilevel converters

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4397-4402

  Ceballos, Salvador ^a   Pou, Josep ^b   Choi, Sanghun ^c   Saeedifard, Maryam ^c   Agelidis, Vassilios ^d  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CIRCULATING CURRENT; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; DEVELOPED MODEL; HIGH-VOLTAGE DIRECT-CURRENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; HIGH-VOLTAGES; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATLAB/SIMULINK ENVIRONMENT; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CAPACITORS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84863036357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2011.6120032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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