Survey of solid-state fault current limiters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2770-2782

  Abramovitz, Alexander ^a   Ma Smedley, Keuye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault current; fault current limiter (FCL); protection; short circuit current; superconductive FCL

Indexed keywords

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FAULT CURRENT LIMITER (FCL); POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; PROTECTION; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SOLID-STATE FAULT CURRENT LIMITER; SUPERCONDUCTIVE FCL;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SURVEYS;

FAULT CURRENT LIMITERS;

EID: 84859074355     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2174804     Document Type: Article

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