Elimination of coupling transformer core saturation in cascaded multilevel converter-based T-STATCOM systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6796-6809

  Gercek, Cem Ozgur ^a,b   Ermis, Muammer ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converter (CMC); dc current elimination; transformer core saturation; transmission type static synchronous compensator (T STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; COUPLING TRANSFORMERS; DC CURRENT; INTER-AREA OSCILLATIONS; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; TERMINAL VOLTAGE REGULATION; TRANSFORMER CORE;

DC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84906213755     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2306917     Document Type: Article

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