A new reactive current reference algorithm for the STATCOM system based on cascaded multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3577-3588

  Haw, Law Kah ^a   Dahidah, Mohamed S A ^b   Almurib, Haider A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carrier based pulse width modulation (CBPWM); Cascaded H bridge inverter; power factor (PF) correction; reactive power (VAR) compensation; static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROLLERS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; MATLAB; MODULATION; POWER QUALITY; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; REACTIVE POWER; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; VALUE ENGINEERING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CARRIER BASED PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (CB PWM); CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTERS; CASCADED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; MATLAB/SIMULINK SOFTWARE; MULTILEVEL CASCADED INVERTER; POWER FACTORS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR STATCOM; STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENTS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 84923870113     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2341318     Document Type: Article

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