Improving the performance of protection schemes in three level IGCT-based neutral point clamped converters

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2326-2332

  Rocha, Anderson V ^a,b   França, Gleisson J ^a   Dos Santos, Manoel E ^c   De Paula, Hélder ^a   Cardoso Filho, Braz J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA DE MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c GERDAU SA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Active rectifiers; IGCT; NPC converters; Protection; Reliability; Short circuit currents

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RECTIFIERS; DEVICE SELECTION; HIGH-POWER; IGCT; INTERNAL FAULTS; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; NPC CONVERTERS; POWER DEVICES; POWER DIODE; PROTECTION; PROTECTION SCHEMES; REPAIR COSTS; SHOOT-THROUGH; SIMULATION RESULT; TECHNICAL LITERATURE;

ENERGY CONVERSION; POWER CONVERTERS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 78650092807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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