Comprehensive Conceptualization, Design, and Experimental Verification of a Weight-Optimized All-SiC 2 kV/700 V DAB for an Airborne Wind Turbine

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 638-656

  Gammeter, Christoph ^a   Krismer, Florian ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aerospace electronics; Airborne wind turbine (AWT); DC DC power converters; power electronics; renewable energy; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FREQUENCY CONVERTER CIRCUITS; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE; WIND POWER;

AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS; AIRBORNE WIND TURBINE (AWT); EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPES; MINIMUM WEIGHT DESIGN; POWER-TO-WEIGHT RATIOS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84968725142     PISSN: 21686777     EISSN: 21686785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2015.2459378     Document Type: Article

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