The windmill topology

IEEE Industry Applications Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 43-53

  Lee, Kevin ^a   Paice, Derek A ^b   Armes, James E ^a  

^a EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Paice and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Converters; Harmonic analysis; Phase transformers; Power system harmonics; Rectifiers; Topology; Windings

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MILLING MACHINES; OIL FIELDS; PHASE SHIFT; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; POWER TRANSMISSION; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WINDING;

18 PULSE; ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVES; CONVERTERS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; ELECTRIC POWER; HARMONIC MITIGATIONS; IEEE 519; INDUSTRIAL POWER SYSTEMS; NINE-PHASE; NON-LINEAR LOADS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE TRANSFORMERS; POWER FACTOR IMPROVEMENTS; POWER SYSTEM HARMONICS; RECTIFIERS; WINDING CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 61349185754     PISSN: 10772618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIAS.2009.931818     Document Type: Article

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