Cascade dual-boost/buck active-front-end converter for intelligent universal transformer

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4671-4680

  Liu, Chuang ^a   Sun, Pengwei ^b   Lai, Jih Sheng ^b   Ji, Yanchao ^a   Wang, Mingyan ^a   Chen, Chien Liang ^b   Cai, Guowei ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade dual boost buck converters; dc grid; intelligent universal transformer (IUT); multilevel systems; parallel output converters

Indexed keywords

DC GRID; DUAL-BOOST; H-BRIDGES; HALF-BRIDGE; INTELLIGENT UNIVERSAL TRANSFORMER (IUT); LOW VOLTAGES; LOWER SWITCHING LOSS; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; POWER FACTORS; POWER MOSFETS; SHOOT-THROUGH; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; UNIFIED CONTROL; VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84863733519     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2182014     Document Type: Article

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