A simple offline technique for evaluating the condition of aluminum-electrolytic-capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3230-3237

  Amaral, Acácio Manuel Raposo ^a,b   Cardoso, A J Marques ^b,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Discrete Fourier transform (DFT); Dissipation factor; Electrolytic capacitors; Equivalent series resistance (ESR); Fault diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT DETECTION; FOURIER SERIES;

ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; CAPACITANCE VALUES; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; DISSIPATION FACTORS; EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTANCE; OFFLINE; SINUSOIDAL VOLTAGE;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 68449087490     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2022077     Document Type: Article

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