Modeling and analysis of switching-ripple voltage on the DC link between a diode rectifier and a modular multilevel cascade inverter (MMCI)

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-84

  Peng, Hui ^a   Hagiwara, Makoto ^a   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medium voltage; Motor drives; Multilevel inverters

Indexed keywords

DAMPING RESISTORS; DC LINKS; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; DIODE RECTIFIER; FILM CAPACITORS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; MOTOR DRIVE; MULTI-LEVEL CASCADE INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; POWER-LOSSES; SERIES CONNECTIONS;

CAPACITORS; DAMPING; ELECTRIC DRIVES; RESISTORS; SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84866385879     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2199519     Document Type: Article

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