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Professor Tim Green, FREng

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Academic Leader for Sustainability, Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6171t.green Website CV

 
 
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1107EElectrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Merlin:2017:10.1109/COMPEL.2017.8013393,
author = {Merlin, MMC and Judge, PD and Chaffey, G and Wylie, J and Green, TC},
doi = {10.1109/COMPEL.2017.8013393},
title = {Soft-switching of the director switch in the alternate arm converter using blocked sub-modules},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL.2017.8013393},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - © 2017 IEEE. The presence of Director Switches (DS) in its arms enables the Alternate Arm Converter (AAC) to generate smooth current waveforms while using a reduced number of Sub-Modules (SMs) when compared to the Modular Multilevel Converter. To maximise the power efficiency of the AAC and simplify the DS design, it is highly beneficial to soft-switch the DS. This paper presents a method which reliably ensures their soft-switching operation using the blocked state of SMs during the non-conducting part of the cycle of an arm. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method over a wide range of operating conditions.
AU  - Merlin,MMC
AU  - Judge,PD
AU  - Chaffey,G
AU  - Wylie,J
AU  - Green,TC
DO  - 10.1109/COMPEL.2017.8013393
PY  - 2017///
TI  - Soft-switching of the director switch in the alternate arm converter using blocked sub-modules
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL.2017.8013393
ER  -
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