Hybrid HVDC circuit breaker with self-powered gate drives

The ever increasing electric power demand and the advent of renewable energy sources have revived the interest in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) multi-terminal networks. However, the absence of a suitable circuit breaker or fault tolerant VSC station topologies with the required characteristics...

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Main Authors: Effah, Francis Boafo, Watson, Alan James, Ji, Chao, Amankwah, Emmanuel K., Johnson, Christopher Mark, Davidson, Colin, Clare, Jon C.
Format: Article
Published: IET 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32740/