Design and Loss Analysis of Loosely Coupled Transformer for an Underwater High-Power Inductive Power Transfer System

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Cheng, Zhiyuan ^a   Lei, Yang ^a   Song, Kai ^a   Zhu, Chunbo ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Additional eddy current (AEC) loss; loosely coupled transformer (LCT); underwater inductive power transfer (IPT); water medium

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETIC DEVICES; SEAWATER; WATER; WINDING;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS; INDUCTIVE POWERTRANSFER (IPT); LOOSELY COUPLED TRANSFORMERS; MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; UNDERWATER EXPERIMENTS; WATER MEDIUMS;

MAGNETIC LEAKAGE;

EID: 84936797730     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2014.2346737     Document Type: Article

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