A new computer-aided method for the efficiency measurement of low-loss transformers and inductors under nonsinusoidal operation

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 292-300

  Fuchs, E F ^a,b   Fei, R ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Efficiency measurement; Harmonic loss measurement; Inductors; Low loss transformers

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IRON; MAGNETIC DEVICES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHASE SHIFT;

COMPUTER AIDED TESTING CIRCUITS; CURRENT WAVESHAPE; EPSTEIN FRAME IRON CORE; FLUX DENSITY; HARMONIC CURRENTS; LOW FREQUENCY; NONSINUSOIDAL CONDITIONS; PHASE FACTOR FUNCTION;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 0029756518     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.484028     Document Type: Article

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