Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage and Fault Current Limiters Projects, Considerations, and Outlook

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1102-1107

  Steurer, Michael ^a   Ribeiro, Paulo F ^b   Noe, Mathias ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Fault current limiter; Solid state witch; Superconductor; Voltage source converter

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETIC ENERGY STORAGE (SMES);

LIMITERS;

EID: 0842288395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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