Reliability considerations and fault-handling strategies for multi-MW modular drive systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2442-2451

  Geyer, Tobias ^a   Schröder, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical drive; fault handling; medium voltage drive; modular drive system; multilevel converter; redundancy; reliability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL DRIVES; FAULT HANDLING; MEDIUM VOLTAGE DRIVES; MODULAR DRIVE SYSTEMS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER;

REDUNDANCY; TORQUE CONVERTERS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 78649368593     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2070477     Document Type: Article

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