A three-phase four-wire static synchronous compensator with reduced number of switches for unbalanced loads

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1630-1643

  Balikci, Abdul ^a   Akpinar, Eyüp ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; MATLAB; REACTIVE POWER; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; NUMBER OF SWITCHES; SINGLE PHASE; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THREE PHASE; THREE PHASE FOUR WIRE; THREE-PHASE LOADS; UNBALANCED LOADS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 84924283583     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2013.0535     Document Type: Article

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