Technical development on partial discharge measurement and electrical insulation techniques for low voltage motors driven by voltage inverters

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1516-1530

  Okubo, Hitoshi ^a   Hayakawa, Naoki ^a   Montanari, Gian Carlo ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; IEC; Inverter surge; Inverter fed motor; Lifetime; Nanocomposite; Partial discharge; PD resistant wire; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOTORS; NANOCOMPOSITES; STANDARDIZATION;

INVERTER SURGE; INVERTER-FED MOTORS;

PARTIAL DISCHARGES;

EID: 37249073414     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2007.4401236     Document Type: Article

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