An approach to eliminating DC magnetic flux from the series transformer of a dynamic voltage restorer

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 809-816

  Jimichi, Takushi ^a   Fujita, Hideaki ^a   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensating voltage; DC magnetic flux; Dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs); Magnetic saturation; Series transformers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COMPENSATING VOLTAGE; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORERS; SERIES TRANSFORMERS;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 44849123476     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.921427     Document Type: Article

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