Electric Vehicle Charging Station Using a Neutral Point Clamped Converter with Bipolar DC Bus

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1999-2009

  Rivera, Sebastian ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Kouro, Samir ^b   Yaramasu, Venkata ^a   Wang, Jiacheng ^c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipolar dc bus, fast charging; grid connection; neutral point clamped (NPC); plug in electric vehicles (PEVs)

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; POWER CONVERTERS; VEHICLES;

ACCURATELY REGULATED; BALANCING MECHANISMS; ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING; FAST CHARGING; GRID CONNECTIONS; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; PLUG-IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

CHARGING (BATTERIES);

EID: 84924891857     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2348937     Document Type: Article

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