Analysis and comparison of medium voltage high power DC/DC converters for offshore wind energy systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2014-2023

  Chen, Wu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^b   Li, Chushan ^c   Wang, Gangyao ^b   Gu, Wei ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High power; Medium voltage dc (MVDC) converter; MVDC grid; Offshore wind farm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880169812     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2215054     Document Type: Article

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