TY - GEN
T1 - A 4 kV Silicon Carbide solid-state fault current limiter
AU - Saadeh, Osama S.
AU - Johnson, Erik D.
AU - Saadeh, Mahmood S.
AU - Escobar Mejia, Andres
AU - Schirmer, Christopher
AU - Rowden, Brian
AU - Mantooth, Alan
AU - Balda, Juan
AU - Ang, Simon
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Due to increased demand and deployment of new technologies, such as electric vehicles, utilities face increasing fault currents in their systems. As a consequence protection devices must have higher ratings. Replacing existing infrastructure can prove expensive and complicated. Fault current limiters promise an upgrade solution that will mitigate the need for replacing existing breakers to keep fault currents within the ratings of existing protection equipment. SiC offers several key advantages to grid-connected power electronics, such as smaller footprint, faster switching speeds, and simpler cooling systems. This paper describes a 4 kV Silicon Carbide (SiC) fault current limiter that demonstrated the technologies' potential.1
AB - Due to increased demand and deployment of new technologies, such as electric vehicles, utilities face increasing fault currents in their systems. As a consequence protection devices must have higher ratings. Replacing existing infrastructure can prove expensive and complicated. Fault current limiters promise an upgrade solution that will mitigate the need for replacing existing breakers to keep fault currents within the ratings of existing protection equipment. SiC offers several key advantages to grid-connected power electronics, such as smaller footprint, faster switching speeds, and simpler cooling systems. This paper describes a 4 kV Silicon Carbide (SiC) fault current limiter that demonstrated the technologies' potential.1
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U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342217
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342217
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870902338
SN - 9781467308014
T3 - 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012
SP - 4445
EP - 4449
BT - 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012
T2 - 4th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012
Y2 - 15 September 2012 through 20 September 2012
ER -