Advantages of high frequency PWM in AC motor drive applications

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2977-2984

  Shirabe, Kohei ^a   Swamy, Mahesh ^a   Kang, Jun Koo ^a   Hisatsune, Masaki ^a   Wu, Yifeng ^b   Kebort, Don ^b   Honea, Jim ^b  

^a Yaskawa Electric America Inc   (United States)

^b Transphorm Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC MOTOR DRIVES; CARRIER FREQUENCY; ELECTRICAL POWER; FAST CONTROL; FILTER SIZES; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MECHANICAL POWER; MOTOR CURRENTS; MOTOR DRIVE APPLICATIONS; MOTOR EFFICIENCIES; MOTOR INSULATION; MOTOR TERMINALS; MOTOR TORQUE; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; TURN-OFF LOSS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES; WAVE FORMS;

AC MOTORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; TORQUE MOTORS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

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EID: 84870919495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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