Power density investigations for the large wind turbines' grid-side press-pack IGBT 3L-NPC-VSCs

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 731-738

  Senturk, Osman S ^a   Munk Nielsen, Stig ^b   Teodorescu, Remus ^b   Helle, Lars ^c   Rodriguez, Pedro ^d  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A S   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS CAPACITORS; CONVERTER DESIGN; CONVERTER PERFORMANCE; ELECTRO-THERMAL MODEL; ELECTRO-THERMAL MODELING; LARGE WIND TURBINES; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; POWER CAPABILITY; POWER DENSITIES; POWER-LOSSES; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER;

CAPACITORS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; POWER CONVERTERS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84870894616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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