Stability Improvement of Interleaved Voltage Source Inverters Employing Coupled Inductors for Grid-Connected Applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6014-6023

  Shin, Dongsul ^a   Lee, Jong Pil ^b   Yoo, Dong Wook ^b   Kim, Hee Je ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

coupled inductor; cross current; current controller; harmonic compensation; Interleaving

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

COUPLED INDUCTOR; CURRENT CHARACTERISTIC; CURRENT CONTROLLER; HARMONIC COMPENSATION; INTERLEAVING; STABILITY IMPROVEMENT; SWITCHING HARMONICS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84941595707     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2420044     Document Type: Article

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