• DocumentCode
    1369183
  • Title

    Survey of Solid-State Fault Current Limiters

  • Author

    Abramovitz, Alexander ; Smedley, Keuye Ma

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, USA
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2770
  • Lastpage
    2782
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a comparative survey of research activities and emerging technologies of solid-state fault current limiters for power distribution systems.
  • Keywords
    fault current limiters; power distribution faults; power distribution protection; power semiconductor devices; power distribution system; solid state fault current limiters; Bridge circuits; Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Fault currents; Inductors; Thyristors; Varistors; Fault current; fault current limiter (FCL); protection; short circuit current; superconductive FCL;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPEL.2011.2174804
  • Filename
    6069867