Voltage balancing and fluctuation-suppression methods of floating capacitors in a new modular multilevel converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1943-1954

  Wang, Kui ^a   Li, Yongdong ^a   Zheng, Zedong ^a   Xu, Lie ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Floating capacitor; modular multilevel converter (MMC); voltage balancing; voltage fluctuation suppression

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

FLOATING CAPACITOR; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH-VOLTAGES; LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; LOW POWER; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; MOTOR DRIVING; MULTI-WINDING TRANSFORMER; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; START-UPS; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS; VOLTAGE-FLUCTUATION SUPPRESSION;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84873353749     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2201433     Document Type: Article

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