A compact MMC submodule structure with reduced capacitor size using the stacked switched capacitor architecture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 8519
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1109/TPEL.2015.2511189
- Title of journal
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
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- First page
- 6920
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 0885-8993
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Modular multilevel converters are critical to future grid technologies, but a major challenge is the current size of their capacitors. This work, a collaboration with MIT, proposed a method for reducing the capacitor size by 50%. Such space/weight savings will be potentially transformative for off-shore wind applications. The research led to invited seminars at Imperial College (05/2016) and GE Grid Solutions (06/2016) and inspired Southampton University and AWE to develop trade-off design techniques for capacitor materials (andrew.randewich@awe.co.uk; asv@ecs.soton.ac.uk). The first-author (PhD student) won Warwick's Best Science Faculty PhD Thesis; a co-author is now an Associate Professor at Princeton.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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