STATCOM, a prerequisite for a melt shop expansion - Performance experiences

2003 IEEE Bologna PowerTech - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 6-11

  Grünbaum, Rolf ^a   Gustafsson, Tomas ^a   Hasler, Jean Philippe ^a   Larsson, Tomas ^a   Lahtinen, Matti ^b  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b FINGRID OYJ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arc furnace; Flicker mitigation; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Metals industry; Pulse width modulated power converters; Reactive power control; Static VAR compensators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; STATIC VAR COMPENSATORS;

ARC FURNACES; ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE; FLICKER MITIGATION; METALS INDUSTRIES; NEGATIVE PHASE SEQUENCES; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PULSEWIDTH-MODULATED POWER CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS;

ELECTRIC FURNACES;

EID: 84861485053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2003.1304630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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