Energy-balancing control strategy for modular multilevel converters under submodule fault conditions

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5021-5030

  Hu, Pengfei ^a   Jiang, Daozhuo ^a   Zhou, Yuebin ^a   Liang, Yiqiao ^a   Guo, Jie ^a   Lin, Zhiyong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy balancing control strategy; modular multilevel converters (MMCs); prototype; redundant submodules (SMs); submodule (SM) fault

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; FAULT TOLERANT OPERATIONS; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; PROTOTYPE; SUBMODULES; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84900414039     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2284919     Document Type: Article

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