Design and implementation of a current-source converter for use in industry applications of d-statcom

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1943-1957

  Bilgin, Hazim Faruk ^a   Ermiş, Muammer ^b  

^a Uzay Teknolojileri Araptyrma Enstitusu Turkey   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Converters; power semiconductor devices; snubbers; static voltampere reactive (VAR) compensators

Indexed keywords

AIR COOLING; BIPOLAR VOLTAGES; BLOCKING CAPABILITY; CRITICAL DESIGN; CURRENT SOURCES; DC-LINK; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DSTATCOM; FAST RECOVERY DIODES; FIELD TEST; INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATED GATE-COMMUTATED THYRISTORS; LABORATORY TEST; LOW ORDER HARMONICS; POWER QUALITY STANDARDS; POWER RATINGS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; POWER STAGE; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; SWITCHING PATTERNS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; INDUSTRY; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER QUALITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; THYRISTORS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77954153481     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2043958     Document Type: Article

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