Design, implementation and performance of a modular power electronic transformer (PET) for railway application

Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhao, Chuanhong ^a   Lewdeni Schmid, Silvia ^a   Steinke, Juergen K ^a   Weiss, Michael ^a   Chaudhuri, Toufann ^a   Pellerin, Marc ^a   Duron, Joseph ^a   Stefanutti, Philippe ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Efficiency; High voltage power converters; Multilevel converters; Rail vehicle; Resonant converter; Soft switching; ZVS converters

Indexed keywords

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; RAIL VEHICLE; RESONANT CONVERTERS; ZVS CONVERTERS;

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POWER ELECTRONICS; SOFT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 80053468365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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