Design and control of a modular multilevel DC/DC converter for regenerative applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3970-3979

  Montesinos Miracle, Daniel ^a   Massot Campos, Miquel ^a,b   Bergas Jane, Joan ^a   Galceran Arellano, Samuel ^a   Rufer, Alfred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Control strategies; modular multilevel converters (MMCs); phase shifting; supercapacitors (SCs)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; DESIGN AND CONTROL; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; OUTPUT CURRENT CONTROL; PHASE-SHIFTING; SUPER CAPACITOR; SUPERCAPACITORS;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; PHASE SHIFT; REGENERATIVE BRAKING; TOPOLOGY;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84872843740     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2231702     Document Type: Article

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