Investigation of transformer winding architectures for high-voltage (2.5 kV) capacitor charging and discharging applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 5786-5796

  Thummala, Prasanth ^a   Schneider, Henrik ^b   Zhang, Zhe ^b   Andersen, Michael A E ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

actuator; energy efficiency; high voltage DC DC converters; high voltage transformer; switch mode power converters; transformer parasitics; transformer winding architectures

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARCHITECTURE; CAPACITANCE; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INDUCTANCE; POWER CONVERTERS; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS; WINDING;

BIDIRECTIONAL FLYBACK CONVERTER; CAPACITOR CHARGING AND DISCHARGING; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE DC; HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSFORMERS; PARASITICS; SWITCH-MODE POWER CONVERTERS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH;

DC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84963957192     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2491638     Document Type: Article

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