Design concepts for high-voltage variable-capacitance DC generators

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1778-1784

  O'Donnell, Ryan ^a   Schofield, Nigel ^a   Smith, Alexander C ^a   Cullen, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrostatic machines; HVDC generator; Off shore wind generation; Variable capacitance dc generator; Variable capacitance machines

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC MACHINES; HVDC GENERATOR; OFF-SHORE WIND GENERATION; VARIABLE-CAPACITANCE DC GENERATOR; VARIABLE-CAPACITANCE MACHINES;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; CAPACITANCE; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC CABLES; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTROSTATIC GENERATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEGRAPH; WIND POWER;

HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 70349952539     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2027545     Document Type: Article

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