Five-Level Multiple-Pole PWM AC-AC Converters with Reduced Components Count

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4739-4748

  Ooi, Gabriel H P ^a   Maswood, Ali I ^a   Lim, Ziyou ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Five level multiple pole converter; Reduce number of semiconductor devices; Transformerless drive

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; POLES; POWER CONVERTERS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; FIVE-LEVEL MULTIPLE-POLE CONVERTER; INPUT CURRENT QUALITIES; LOW CURRENT HARMONICS; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION; TRANSFORMERLESS;

AC-AC POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84934325209     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2405504     Document Type: Article

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