Review of solid state transformer in the distribution system: From components to field application

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4077-4084

  She, Xu ^a   Burgos, Rolando ^b   Wang, Gangyao ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

distribution system; high frequency transformer; high voltage power device; solid state transformer

Indexed keywords

AC/AC CONVERTER; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FIELD APPLICATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY POWER; HIGH POWER CONVERTERS; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER; POWER GRIDS; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; SMART GRID; SOLID STATE CONVERSION; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER (SST); SOLID-STATE TRANSFORMER; STATE-OF-ART TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY REVIEW;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

MODERNIZATION;

EID: 84870933119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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