Average power balancing control of a STATCOM based on the cascaded h-bridge PWM converter with star configuration

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3893-3901

  Lee, Chia Tse ^a   Wang, Bo Siang ^b   Chen, Sheng Wan ^c   Chou, Shih Feng ^d   Huang, Jun Lin ^d   Cheng, Po Tai ^a   Akagi, Hirofumi ^e   Barbosa, Peter ^d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC   (Taiwan)

^c Hon Hai Precision Industry   (Taiwan)

^d DELTA ELECTRONICS INC   (Taiwan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER CONVERTERS; REACTIVE POWER; STARS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS;

CASCADED CONVERTERS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION RESOURCES; LABORATORY TEST; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS;

EID: 84913532845     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2014.2312618     Document Type: Article

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