SATURATED CORE VOLTAGE REGULATORS: PARAMETERIZATION, COMPUTATIONAL MODELS AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Abstract

Despite recognition from a vast number of publications that contemplate performance studies of so called saturated core voltage regulators, the subject, when weighed against the benefits, such as new material based technologies and application perspectives, still presents various challenging topics. In fact, investigations concerning the physical principles governing its constructive design, the retrieval of representative electric and magnetic parameters, the development of computational models, enabling means for evaluating the effectiveness of the processes for restoring the busbar voltage are still deserving of research, development and modelling. Given this setting, the present paper cogitates aspects that guide the physical design concepts and parameterization of these devices, strategies aimed at the computational modelling and evaluation of these devices performance at regulating voltages and other correlated phenomena. Theoretical results are compared to corresponding experimental performances intent on defining the established models' degree of adhesion. Keywords: Saturated Core Reactors, Design and Modeling, ATP Simulator, FEMM Simulator, Voltage Regulators.