Motor shaft voltages and bearing currents and their reduction in multilevel medium-voltage PWM voltage-source-inverter drive applications

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1336-1341

  Wang, Fei ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MACHINE WINDINGS; MECHANICAL DRIVES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SHAFTS (MACHINE COMPONENTS);

VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER DRIVES;

ELECTRIC MOTORS;

EID: 0034270474     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.871282     Document Type: Article

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