Modeling and control of a full-bridge modular multilevel STATCOM

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Wei ^a   Gregoire, L A ^a   Belanger, J ^a  

^a OPAL RT TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

converter control; FACTS; modeling; Multilevel Converter; real time simulation; STATCOM; Voltage Source Converter (VSC)

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER CONTROLS; FACTS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; STATCOM; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; MODELS; POWER CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 84870580463     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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