This paper is a licentiate compilation-thesis that aims to bring clarity to the dimensioning aspects and limiting factors of modular multilevel converters. The dc-capacitor in each submodule is a driving factor for the size and weight of the converter. This means that it is important to distribute the stored energy evenly among all submodule capacitors. Typically, an increased switching frequen...

let r be a commutative ring and m be an r-module. we say that m is fully primary, if every proper submodule of m is primary. in this paper, we state some characterizations of fully primary modules. we also give some characterizations of rings over which every module is fully primary, and of those rings over which there exists a faithful fully primary module. furthermore, we will introduce some ...

the generalized principal ideal theorem is one of the cornerstones of dimension theory for noetherian rings. for an r-module m, we identify certain submodules of m that play a role analogous to that of prime ideals in the ring r. using this definition, we extend the generalized principal ideal theorem to modules.

We consider the following problem: For a system consisting of two submodules, the behavior of one submodule is known as well as the desired behavior S of the global system. What should be the behavior of the second submodule such that the behavior of the composition of the two submodules conforms to S ?-This problem has also been called "equation solving", and in the context of supervisory cont...

A method for solving CCS equations of type (AIX)\L ~ B, where X is unknown, is presented. The method is useful in a top-down design methodology: if a system (B) and some of its submodules (.4) axe specified, solving such an equation amounts to constructing the missing submodules. The method works by successively transforming equations into simpler equations, in parallel with generation of a sol...

let $m$ be a module over a commutative ring $r$ and let $n$ be a proper submodule of $m$. the total graph of $m$ over $r$ with respect to $n$, denoted by $t(gamma_{n}(m))$, have been introduced and studied in [2]. in this paper, a generalization of the total graph $t(gamma_{n}(m))$, denoted by $t(gamma_{n,i}(m))$ is presented, where $i$ is an ideal of $r$. it is the graph with all elements of $...