Fault-tolerant inverter for subsea applications

2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Flury, G ^a   Gollentz, B ^a   Conilh, C ^a  

^a Converteam Semea ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant converter; IGBT redundancy; Subsea applications

Indexed keywords

COOLING UNIT; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULT-TOLERANT CONVERTER; GATE DRIVES; IGBT REDUNDANCY; MEDIUM VOLTAGE INVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; OPERATION MODE; SHORT CIRCUIT;

ACTIVE FILTERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER ELECTRONICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; WELDS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

EID: 72949097734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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