Hybrid modulation strategies for eliminating low-frequency neutral-point voltage oscillations in the neutral-point-clamped converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3653-3658

  Orfanoudakis, Georgios I ^a   Yuratich, Michael A ^b   Sharkh, Suleiman M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b One Ropley Business Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacitor balancing; Hybrid modulation strategies; Neutral point (NP) voltage ripple; Neutral point clamped (NPC) converter

Indexed keywords

HYBRID MODULATION STRATEGIES; HYBRID STRATEGIES; MATLAB-SIMULINK; MODULATION STRATEGY; NEAREST VECTORS; NEUTRAL POINTS; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SWITCHING LOSS; VOLTAGE OSCILLATION; VOLTAGE RIPPLES;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; POWER ELECTRONICS;

MODULATION;

EID: 84872926010     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2231883     Document Type: Article

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