Design and comparison of inductors and intercell transformers for filtering of PWM inverter output

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 812-821

  Forest, François ^a   Labouré, Eric ^b   Meynard, Thierry A ^c   Smet, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Embedded converters; Intercell transformer (ICT); Interleaved inverters; Uninterruptible power system (UPS)

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; EMBEDDED CONVERTERS; EMBEDDED-NETWORKS; INTERCELL TRANSFORMER (ICT); INTERLEAVED INVERTERS; LOAD TRANSIENTS; MOTOR DRIVES; NANOCRYSTALLINE MAGNETIC MATERIALS; ORIGINAL DESIGNS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION INVERTERS; PWM INVERTERS; SPECIFIC DESIGNS; SPECIFIC POWER; TOROIDAL CORES;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; POWER TRANSMISSION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 67349191602     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2007900     Document Type: Article

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