An analysis of approaches to developing converters for power engineering based on vacuum switching-type electronic devices

Abstract

The technical feasibility of using electron-beam valves of the EBV 2/200, EBV 4/40, and EBV 50/100 types in power electronic engineering, including static reactive-power compensators or integrated power-flow controllers, was considered at line voltages of 20–35 kV without using high-voltage transformers. A physical analog of bridge and half-bridge inverters on the basis of the EBV 4/40 valve with pulse-width modulation with a sampling rate of 1–2 kHz was built.