Current-source converter and cycloconverter topologies for industrial medium-voltage drives

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2786-2797

  Wu, Bin ^a   Pontt, Jorge ^b   Rodríguez, José ^b   Bernet, Steffen ^c   Kouro, Samir ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current source inverter (CSI); Cycloconverter (CCV); High power drives; Load commutated inverter (LCI)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; SPEED; TOPOLOGY;

AC DRIVES; ACTIVE AREAS; ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVE (ASD); COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; CONVERTERS (PAPER INDUSTRY); CURRENT SOURCE (CS); CURRENT SOURCE CONVERTERS; CYCLO CONVERTER; FUTURE TRENDS; HIGH-POWER CONVERTERS; LOAD-COMMUTATED INVERTERS (LCI); MEDIUM-VOLTAGE DRIVES; MODULATED CURRENT; MODULATION SCHEMES; PRACTICING ENGINEERS; PULSE WIDTH (PW); STATE OF THE ARTS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; VOLTAGE SOURCES;

DRIVES;

EID: 47049128225     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.924175     Document Type: Article

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