Comparative study of multilevel inverters under unbalanced voltage in a single DC link

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1530-1543

  Maswood, Ali I ^a   Gabriel, Ooi H P ^a   Ammar, Essam Al ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Department of EE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PERFORMANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGY; UNBALANCED VOLTAGES; UNITY POWER FACTOR;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84884540922     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2012.0454     Document Type: Article

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