Capacitor voltage balancing of a five-level ANPC converter using phase-shifted PWM

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1147-1156

  Wang, Kui ^a   Xu, Lie ^a   Zheng, Zedong ^a   Li, Yongdong ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active neutral point clamped (ANPC); capacitor voltage balancing; multilevel converter; phase shifted pulse width modulation (PWM); zero sequence voltage

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; PHASE SHIFTED; ZERO SEQUENCE VOLTAGE;

EID: 84908236577     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2320985     Document Type: Article

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