Design considerations for a soft-switched modular 2.4-MVA medium-voltage drive

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1400-1411

  Bendre, Ashish ^b   Wallace, Ian ^c   Luckjiff, Glen A ^b   Norris, Steve ^b   Gascoigne, Randal W ^b   Divan, Deepak ^a,b   Cuzner, Robert M ^c  

^a IEEE

^b Softswitching Technologies   (United States)

^c EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

DC DC converters; Medium voltage converter; Multilevel converter; Resonant dc link; Sigma delta modulation; Soft switching

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; DC MACHINERY; DELTA SIGMA MODULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARMONIC DISTORTION; SWITCHING;

MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 0036755166     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2002.802991     Document Type: Article

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