Assessment of Fault Tolerance in Modular Multilevel Converters with Integrated Energy Storage

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 4085-4095

  Soong, Theodore ^a   Lehn, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC DC power conversion; energy resources; energy storage; multilevel systems; power conversion; redundancy

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY STORAGE; FAULT TOLERANCE; OUTAGES; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

AC-DC POWER CONVERSION; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; DC/AC CONVERTERS; INTEGRATED ENERGY STORAGES; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERSION; SERIES-CONNECTED;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84962449727     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2477834     Document Type: Article

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