A two-stage power converter for welding applications with increased efficiency and reduced filtering

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 251-256

  Klumpner, Christian ^a   Corbridge, Mathew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; WELDING;

ARC BURNS; CONVERTER CONFIGURATIONS; DC/DC CONVERTERS; DIODE RECTIFIERS; DUTY CYCLES; H BRIDGES; HIGH FREQUENCY POWERS; LEAKAGE INDUCTANCES; OUTPUT CURRENTS; OUTPUT FILTERS; POWER SUPPLY TECHNOLOGIES; SIZE REDUCTIONS; SWITCHING LOSSES; TO SWITCHES; WELDING APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 57849117147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2008.4677248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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