A steady-state analysis method for a modular multilevel converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3702-3713

  Song, Qiang ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a   Li, Xiaoqian ^a   Rao, Hong ^b   Xu, Shukai ^b   Li, Licheng ^b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Modular multilevel converter (MMC); Steady state analysis; Voltage source converter HVDC; VSC HVDC

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CIRCULATING CURRENT; CONVERTER PERFORMANCE; CURRENT QUANTITIES; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES; HIGH-VOLTAGES; KEY EQUATION; MAIN CIRCUIT; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE MODELS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER; VSC-HVDC;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84872923457     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2227818     Document Type: Article

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