A novel capacitor voltage balancing control strategy for modular multilevel converters (MMC)

2013 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1804-1807

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Wang, Ping ^a   Li, Zixin ^a   Li, Yaohua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

modular multilevel converters (MMC); sorting algorithm; voltage balancing control

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; ELECTRICAL MACHINE; HIGH-VOLTAGES; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; SORTING ALGORITHM; VOLTAGE-BALANCING CONTROLS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84893746899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEMS.2013.6713283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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