A power traction converter based on Modular Multilevel architecture integrated with energy storage devices

Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion, ESARS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Coppola, M ^a   Del Pizzo, A ^a   Iannuzzi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy Storage; Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC); Traction Drives

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; DESIGN AND CONTROL; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; FLOW MANAGEMENT; LIGHT TRAVEL; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POWER CONVERSION; POWER TRACTION; SIMPLIFIED MATHEMATICAL MODEL; TRACTION DRIVE; TRANSFORMERLESS;

CONTROL THEORY; ENERGY STORAGE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROADS; SHIP PROPULSION; TOPOLOGY;

TRACTION MOTORS;

EID: 84873469226     PISSN: 21659400     EISSN: 21659427     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESARS.2012.6387415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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