Eliminating DC current injection in current-transformer-sensed STATCOMs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3760-3767

  Shi, Yanjun ^a   Liu, Bangyin ^a   Duan, Shanxu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converter (CMC); Current transformers (CTs); dc injection; static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; CURRENT FEEDBACK; CURRENT SENSING; DC COMPONENTS; DC CURRENT; DC INJECTION; DIRECT CURRENT; ELIMINATION METHOD; FEED-BACK LOOP; GRID-CONNECTED; HIGH-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; OUTPUT CURRENT; POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS; POWER GRIDS; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR;

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER ELECTRONICS;

DC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84872981529     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2228883     Document Type: Article

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