A neutral-point balancing controller for a three-level inverter with full power-factor range and low distortion

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 138-148

  Shen, Jie ^a,b   Schroder, Stefan ^a   Duro, Basic ^a   Roesner, Robert ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic common mode (CM) injection; neutral point (NP) control; neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter; self balancing (SB)

Indexed keywords

AC FILTERS; AC LOAD; AC-SIDE; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; COMMONMODE; LOW DISTORTION; LOW ORDER HARMONICS; NEUTRAL-POINT- CLAMPED (NPC) INVERTER; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; SELF-BALANCING; THREE-LEVEL CONVERTERS; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); VOLTAGE INJECTION; WORKING WELL;

ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84872720455     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2012.2228615     Document Type: Article

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