Study on overvoltage protection in HVDC LTT valve

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 545-550

  Tanabe, Shigeru ^a,b   Kobayashi, Sumio ^a,b   Sampei, Masatoshi ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Electric Power Development Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); LIGHTNING ARRESTERS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; THYRISTORS; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

FORWARD RECOVERY PROTECTION; GATE ELECTRONICS; HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT VALVE; LIGHT TRIGGERED THYRISTOR; THYRISTOR VALVE;

OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION;

EID: 0034171526     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.852982     Document Type: Article

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