"Magnetic ear"-based balancing of magnetic flux in high power medium frequency dual active bridge converter transformer cores

8th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia: "Green World with Power Electronics", ICPE 2011-ECCE Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1307-1314

  Ortiz, G ^a   Muhlethaler J ^a   Kolar, J W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPENSATION; DC MAGNETIZATION; DC VOLTAGE; DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGE CONVERTER; FLUX DENSITIES; HIGH-POWER; MAGNETIC FLUX MEASUREMENTS; MAGNETIC PATHS; MEDIUM FREQUENCIES; NON-INVASIVE; TRANSFORMER CORE;

DC TRANSFORMERS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; POWER ELECTRONICS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80052088088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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