Characterization of amorphous iron distribution transformer core for use in high-power medium-frequency applications

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1060-1066

  Lenke, Robert U ^a   Rohde, Sebastian ^a   Mura, Florian ^a   De Doncker, Rik W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS IRON; APPROXIMATION EQUATIONS; CORE LOSS; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; DUTY CYCLES; FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS; HIGH-POWER; KILOHERTZ FREQUENCIES; OPERATING FREQUENCY; POWER DISSIPATION; SURFACE POWER; VOLTAGE EXCITATIONS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; POWER ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

EID: 72449126495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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