A novel primary-side-assisted soft-switching and fault-tolerance of a high-frequency-link inverter for renewable-energy systems

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition: Energy Conversion Innovation for a Clean Energy Future, ECCE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 784-790

  Rahnamaee, Arash ^a   Mazumder, Sudip K ^a   Tajfar, Alireza ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC/AC CONVERTER; AC/DC CONVERTERS; ENCODED INFORMATION; HF TRANSFORMERS; NOMINAL OPERATIONS; SINUSOIDAL MODULATION; THIRD PHASE; THREE-PHASE INVERTER; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

ENERGY CONVERSION; SOFT SWITCHING;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 81855190633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6063850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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