Internal power flow of a modular multilevel converter with distributed energy resources

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1127-1138

  Soong, Theodore ^a   Lehn, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC DC power converters; Energy resources; Energy storage; Multilevel systems; Power conversion

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY TRANSFER; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

CONTROL METHODOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; GENERALIZED MODULAR; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; OPERATING CONFIGURATIONS; POWER CONVERSION;

ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW;

EID: 84908502160     PISSN: 21686777     EISSN: 21686785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2014.2342656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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