Thyristor protection for series capacitors in an arc furnace plant

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1891-1897

  Gaio, Elena ^a   Piovan, Roberto ^a   Zanotto, Loris ^a   Bordignon, Paolo ^b   Consani, Tito ^b  

^a Assoc EURATOM ENEA sulla Fusione ^*  (Italy)

^b Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC FURNACES; ELECTRIC LINES; OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION; POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; THYRISTORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CAPACITOR COMPENSATED DISTRIBUTION LINES; REACTIVE POWER CONTROL;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 7244243843     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2004.835030     Document Type: Article

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