The search for the optimum architecture for shipboard medium voltage dc integrated power
systems must take into account the short-circuit protection in addition to overarching goals of …

Fuses and Circuit Breakers play an important safety role in electrical transportation systems.
Challenging new applications, especially in DC, have brought conventional current limiting …

Devices having one primary transistor, or a plurality of primary transistors in parallel, protect
electrical circuits from overcurrent conditions. Optionally, the devices have only two …

In battery applications, a DC contactor is usually used in series with a current-limiting fuse to
clear respectively low and high fault currents. However, classic protection devices have …

This paper investigates the possibilities of limiting emergency short current pulses by using
materials with a positive temperature coefficient. A computational model and method for …

Microgrid integration and fault protection in complex network scenarios is a coming
challenge to be faced with new strategies and solutions. In this context of increasing …

Short-circuit currents in autonomous and isolated electrical complexes today are
approaching the switching capacity of operated circuit breakers. Since the existing …

Two-transistor devices protect electrical circuits from sus tained overcurrent conditions.
Some cases provide nor mally-on depletion mode transistors biased into enhance ment …

The presence of high short-circuit currents (200–300 kA) in autonomous and generator
power systems of low and medium voltage classes, causing a decrease in the switching …

The problem of large short-circuit currents is typical for short, autonomous power systems.
This current must be limited for a long time, but not switch-off, because automatic circuit …