Development of an efficient solid-state fault current limiter for microgrid

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1829-1834

  Ghanbari, Teymoor ^a   Farjah, Ebrahim ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autotriggered; hybrid control; microgrid; resonant type; solid state fault current limiter

Indexed keywords

AUTOTRIGGERED; HYBRID CONTROLS; MICRO GRID; RESONANT TYPE; SOLID-STATE FAULT CURRENT LIMITER;

CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRIC SURGES; FAULT CURRENT LIMITERS;

RESONANT CIRCUITS;

EID: 84866735177     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2208230     Document Type: Article

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