A unity-power-factor three-phase PWM SCR rectifier for high-power applications in the metal industry

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 898-908

  Wallace, Ian ^a   Bendre, Ashish ^b   Nord, Jonathan P ^c   Venkataramanan, Giri ^b  

^a EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c Kaiser Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Commutated circuits; Pulsewidth modulated power converters; Rectifiers; Thyristor converters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC FILTERS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THYRISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COMMUTATED CIRCUITS;

SOLID STATE RECTIFIERS;

EID: 0036631312     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2002.800587     Document Type: Article

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