Capacitor voltage balance of MMC converters in bidirectional power flow operation

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4935-4940

  Lizana, Ricardo ^a   Castillo, Cristian ^a   Perez, Marcelo A ^a   Rodriguez, Jose ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL POWER FLOW; CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCE; CASCADED CONVERTERS; CONTROL POINT; CURRENT DYNAMICS; DC VOLTAGE; FLOATING CAPACITOR; HIGH VOLTAGE DC; OPERATING POINTS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER FLOWS; VOLTAGE BALANCE;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84872910465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2012.6389573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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