A comparison of redundant inverter topologies to improve voltage source inverter reliability

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1674-1678

  Julian, Alexander L ^a   Oriti, Giovanna ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Power Engineering Consultant

Author keywords

MTBF; Redundancy; Reliability; Voltage source inverter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

VOLTAGE SENSORS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER (VSI) CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 34948816100     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2006.256761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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