New snubber circuit with passive energy recovery for power inverters

IEE Proceedings: Electric Power Applications

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 403-408

  He, X ^a   Williams, B W ^a   Finney, S J ^b   Qian, Z ^b   Green, T C ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy recovery; GTO thyristor; Inverter; Snubbcr

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; THYRISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ENERGY RECOVERY; SNUBBER CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

PASSIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 0030235102     PISSN: 13502352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-epa:19960518     Document Type: Article

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