A five-level single-phase grid-connected converter for renewable distributed systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 906-918

  Buticchi, Giampaolo ^a   Lorenzani, Emilio ^b   Franceschini, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DC AC power conversion; distributed power generation; grid connected converters; multilevel converters; single phase systems

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CONVERTER ARCHITECTURE; DC LINKS; DC-AC POWER CONVERSION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FIVE-LEVEL CONVERTER; FULL-BRIDGE TOPOLOGY; GRID-CONNECTED CONVERTERS; LOW POWER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER SWITCHES; POWER-LOSSES; SINGLE-PHASE SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84868087362     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2189538     Document Type: Article

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