A 4 kV Silicon Carbide solid-state fault current limiter

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4445-4449

  Saadeh, Osama S ^a,b   Johnson, Erik D ^a   Saadeh, Mahmood S ^a   Escobar Mejia, Andres ^a   Schirmer, Christopher ^a   Rowden, Brian ^a   Mantooth, Alan ^a   Balda, Juan ^a   Ang, Simon ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID-CONNECTED; PROTECTION DEVICE; PROTECTION EQUIPMENT; SOLID-STATE FAULT CURRENT LIMITER; SWITCHING SPEED;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; FAULT CURRENT LIMITERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 84870902338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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