Voltage balancing control in 3-level neutral-point clamped inverters using triangular carrier PWM modulation for facts applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4473-4484

  Chivite Zabalza, Javier ^a   Izurza Moreno, Pedro ^a   Madariaga, Danel ^a   Calvo, Gorka ^a   Rodríguez, Miguel Angel ^a  

^a Ingeteam Technology SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FACTS; insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBT); multilevel inverters; SHE; STATCOM; static synchronous series compensator (SSSC); VSC

Indexed keywords

FACTS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; SHE; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS SERIES COMPENSATOR; VSC;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84875202916     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2237415     Document Type: Article

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