High power multilevel inverter with unity PF front-end rectifier

2012 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maswood, Ali I ^a   Gabriel, Ooi H P ^a   Rahman, M A ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

high AC quality; high power efficiency; Multilevel diode clamped inverter; multilevel flying capacitor inverter; RMS voltage controller

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER PERFORMANCE; DIODE RECTIFIER; DIODE-CLAMPED INVERTER; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; HIGH POWER CAPABILITY; HIGH-POWER; LC FILTER; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOW COSTS; LOW CURRENT HARMONICS; LOW VOLTAGES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER DRIVES; POWER SWITCHES; UNITY POWER FACTOR; VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS; WAVE FORMS;

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXHIBITIONS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84866635139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITEC.2012.6243459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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