A Simple Energy Recovery Circuit for High-Power Inverters With Complete Turn-On and Turn-Off Snubbers

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-88

  He, Xiangning ^a   Deng, Yan ^a   Williams, Barry W ^b   Finney, Stephen J ^b   Qian, Zhaoming ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy recovery; Gate turn off (GTO) thyristor; Inverter; Snubber

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; RESISTORS; THYRISTORS;

ENERGY RECOVERY; GATE-TURN-OFF (GTO) THYRISTORS; SNUBBERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 1342286918     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2003.822089     Document Type: Article

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