Capacitor voltage regulation in single-DC-source cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters using phase-shift modulation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3619-3626

  Sepahvand, Hossein ^a   Liao, Jingsheng ^b   Ferdowsi, Mehdi ^a   Corzine, Keith A ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor voltage regulation; cascaded H bridge converter; H bridge cell; multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; H-BRIDGE CELLS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PHASE SHIFT MODULATION;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84877776404     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2206335     Document Type: Article

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