Operation of Modular Multilevel Converters under grid asymmetries

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6281-6286

  Vasiladiotis, Michail ^a   Cherix, Nicolas ^a   Siemaszko, Daniel ^a   Rufer, Alfred ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

capacitive energy; circulating current; converter control; energy variation; grid asymmetries; Modular Multilevel Converter; symmetrical components

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE ENERGY; CIRCULATING CURRENT; CONVERTER CONTROLS; ENERGY VARIATIONS; GRID ASYMMETRIES; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; SYMMETRICAL COMPONENTS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; POWER CONVERTERS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84893548553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6700168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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