A transformer inrush mitigation method for series voltage sag compensators

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1890-1899

  Cheng, Po Tai ^a   Chen, Wei Ting ^b   Chen, Yu Hsing ^a   Ni, Chia Long ^a   Lin, Jarsun ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Advantech Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

^c Rhymebus Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Transformer inrush; Voltage sag compensator; Voltage sags

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; THYRISTORS;

BYPASS THYRISTORS; INRUSH CURRENT; TRANSFORMER INRUSH; VOLTAGE SAG COMPENSATOR; VOLTAGE SAGS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 34548798099     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.904186     Document Type: Article

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