Title :
Conduction loss calculation for multilevel inverter: a generalized approach for carrier-based PWM technique
Author :
Massoud, A.M. ; Finney, S.J. ; Williams, B.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
Abstract :
In this paper, a new method for conduction loss calculation of a cascaded type multilevel inverter is proposed. This method can be applied to any carrier-based PWM technique and also can be used for conduction loss calculation of the simple two level inverter.
Keywords :
PWM invertors; calculation; losses; carrier-based PWM technique; cascaded multilevel inverter; conduction loss calculation; two level inverter;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2004. (PEMD 2004). Second International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 498)
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-383-8
DOI :
10.1049/cp:20040289
