Power electronic traction transformer-medium voltage prototype

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3257-3268

  Zhao, Chuanhong ^a   Dujic, Drazen ^a   Mester, Akos ^a   Steinke, Juergen K ^a   Weiss, Michael ^a   Lewdeni Schmid, Silvia ^a   Chaudhuri, Toufann ^a   Stefanutti, Philippe ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; power electronic transformer; resonant converter; traction application

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ELECTRIC INSULATION COORDINATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMER PROTECTION;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; MEDIUM FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER; RESONANT CONVERTERS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; TRACTION APPLICATIONS; TRACTION TRANSFORMER;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 84894202762     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2278960     Document Type: Article

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