Reactive power reduction in three-phase electric arc furnace

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 729-733

  Wolf, Albrecht ^a,c   Thamodharan, Manoharan ^b,c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Big D Bindery   (United States)

^c ESAB Cutting Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER CONTROL; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THYRISTORS;

BOOSTER TRANSFORMER; FURNACE TRANSFORMER; POWER CONTROLLER; THREE PHASE ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0034248897     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.857952     Document Type: Article

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