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Review of Power Electronic Transformer in Railway Traction Applications

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Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation

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Being one of merging technologies, power electronic transformer (PET) is attracting more and more attentions. In this review, all the existing PET technologies for railway traction applications are comprehensively reviewed in order to provide a solid background of PET designs. Also, the basic of high-frequency transformer which is the key technology of PET is reviewed. The trend of PET is summarized as the guidelines for future researches.

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    Jianghua Feng, Jing Shang, Zihao Huang, Zhixue Zhang & Dinghua Zhang

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Feng, J., Shang, J., Huang, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhang, D. (2016). Review of Power Electronic Transformer in Railway Traction Applications. In: Jia, L., Liu, Z., Qin, Y., Ding, R., Diao, L. (eds) Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 377. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49367-0_57

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