Evaluation of semiconductor based methods for fault isolation on high voltage DC grids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1171-1179

  Hajian, Masood ^a   Jovcic, Dragan ^a   Wu, Bin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DC Circuit breaker; DC grid; DC DC converter; High voltage dc transmission

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT SIZING; CURRENT INTERRUPTION; DC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; DC GRID; PERFORMANCE OF DEVICES; POWER REGULATION; PSCAD SIMULATION; THYRISTOR CONVERTERS;

COMMUNICATION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY POLICY; FAULT DETECTION; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER ELECTRONICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 84878336877     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2013.2238260     Document Type: Article

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