Neutral-point potential balancing of a five-level active neutral-point-clamped inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1907-1918

  Wang, Kui ^a   Zheng, Zedong ^a   Li, Yongdong ^a   Liu, Kean ^b   Shang, Jing ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active neutral point (NP) clamped (NPC) (ANPC); multilevel converter; NP potential; zero sequence voltage

Indexed keywords

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

ACTIVE NEUTRAL-POINT (NP) CLAMPED (NPC) (ANPC); EMERGING TOPOLOGIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT POTENTIAL; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED INVERTERS; STEADY CONDITIONS; ZERO SEQUENCE VOLTAGE;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84873374929     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2227898     Document Type: Article

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