Design of a solid-state D.C. Circuit breaker for light rail transit power supply network

2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 350-357

  Lawes, David ^a   Ran, Li ^b   Xu, Zhenyu ^c  

^a London Underground Modernisation Programme   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING SIFANG AUTOMATION CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); METALS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; TIMING CIRCUITS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CURRENT CONDUCTION; FAULT CURRENT LIMITING; FORCED AIR COOLING; HYSTERESIS CONTROL; JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; METAL OXIDE VARISTOR; POWER SUPPLY NETWORKS; SHORT-CIRCUIT FAULT;

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT;

EID: 84934281470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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