A Novel DC Capacitor Voltage Balance Control Method for Cascade Multilevel STATCOM

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-27

  Liu, Zhao ^a   Liu, Bangyin ^a   Duan, Shanxu ^a   Kang, Yong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade multilevel; dc capacitor voltage balance; static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); vector analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008540951     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2050337     Document Type: Article

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