Individual phase current control based on optimal zero-sequence current separation for a star-connected cascade STATCOM under unbalanced conditions

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 2099-2110

  Shi, Youjie ^a   Liu, Bangyin ^a   Shi, Yanjun ^b   Duan, Shanxu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade multilevel converter (CMC); Individual phase current control (IPCC); Star configuration; Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); Unbalanced operation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; SEPARATION; STARS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; WIND POWER;

CASCADE MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; INDIVIDUAL PHASE CURRENT CONTROL (IPCC); NEGATIVE-SEQUENCE CURRENTS; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR STATCOM; UNBALANCED CONDITION; UNBALANCED GRID VOLTAGES; UNBALANCED OPERATIONS; ZERO SEQUENCE CURRENT;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 84949484874     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2442528     Document Type: Article

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