Closed-form expressions for minimizing total harmonic distortion in three-phase multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5229-5241

  Hong, David ^a,b   Bai, Sanzhong ^c,d   Lukic, Srdjan M ^c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed form solution; infinite sum; staircase waveform; three phase electric power; total harmonic distortion (THD)

Indexed keywords

WAVE FILTERS;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; INFINITE SUM; THREE-PHASE ELECTRIC POWER; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); WAVE FORMS;

STAIRS;

EID: 84902195425     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2290377     Document Type: Article

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