AC locomotive conversion systems without heavy transformers: Is it a practicable solution?

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1172-1177

  Marchesoni, Mario ^a   Novaro, Roberto ^b   Savio, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b SpA Industrial Systems   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENGINES; LOCOMOTIVES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL DRIVE SYSTEMS; GALVANIC INSULATION; LINE VOLTAGE; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; ON BOARD EQUIPMENTS; POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES; RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84863296148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/isie.2002.1025955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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