A phase-shifted-PWM D-STATCOM using a modular multilevel cascade converter (SSBC) - Part I: Modeling, analysis, and design of current control

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 279-288

  Ota, João I Yutaka ^a   Shibano, Yuji ^b   Niimura, Naoto ^c   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cascade connections; modular multilevel cascade converters (MMCCs); phase shifted pulsewidth modulation (PWM); static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

DISTRIBUTION STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CASCADE CONVERTERS; PHASE-SHIFTED PWM; SINUSOIDAL LINE CURRENT; STABLE SYSTEMS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); STEADY AND TRANSIENT STATE; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS;

EID: 84921497308     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2014.2326079     Document Type: Article

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