A novel voltage balancing method applied to direct control strategy of MMC-HVDC system

IEEE-International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management, ICAESM-2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 448-452

  Meshram, P M ^a   Borghate, V B ^a  

^a VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

MMC HVDC (Modular Multilevel Converter HVDC); Modular multilevel Converter (MMC); sinusoidal PWM (SPWM); voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

BALANCING TECHNIQUES; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CONTROL METHODS; DIRECT CONTROL; MATLAB-SIMULINK; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; SINUSOIDAL PWM (SPWM); SUBMODULES; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CAPACITORS; MATLAB;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84863906229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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