Transient thermal model of a medium frequency power transformer

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1033-1038

  Villar, Irma ^a   Viscarret, Unai ^a   Etxeberria Otadui, Ion ^a   Rufer, Alfred ^b  

^a IK4 IKERLAN   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS;

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; CORE ELEMENTS; DESIGN PROCESS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT EFFECTS; HEAT SOURCES; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MEDIUM FREQUENCIES; MEDIUM VOLTAGES; NATURAL HEATS; NEW HIGHS; NON-LINEAR; NON-SINUSOIDAL EXCITATIONS; POWER DENSITIES; THERMAL MODELS; THERMAL RESISTANCES; TRANSIENT THERMAL MODELS; WORKING FREQUENCIES;

METAL DRAWING;

EID: 63149181489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2008.4758096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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