State-of-Charge (SOC)-Balancing Control of a Battery Energy Storage System Based on a Cascade PWM Converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1628-1636

  Asakura, Jun ^c   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active power control; battery energy storage system (BESS); cascade converter; nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery; state of charge (SOC) balancing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020478     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2014868     Document Type: Article

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