3. Jobs and specifications

3.1 General

It is difficult and costly to produce capacitors that meet all the specifications for all power electronics capacitors. As a result, manufacturers have been obliged to create components adapted to each application.

Broadly speaking, there are two main families of capacitors:

those whose load voltage is continuous and unidirectional [filtering 3.2 , decoupling

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Bibliography

YASUFUKU (S.), UMEMURA (T.), YASUDA (Y.) - Dielectric properties of oil impregnated all polypropylene film, power capacitor insulation system (Propriétés diélectriques du film tout polypropylène imprégné d'huile pour l'isolation des condensateurs de puissance) - . IEEE Trans. on Electrical Insulation (USA). Déc. 1978, p. 403-10.

Main manufacturers

(non-exhaustive list)

AVX TPC: film and ceramic capacitors http://www.avxcorp.com

HITACHI AIC: electrolytic capacitors http://www.hitachiaic.com

EPCOS: film capacitors, electrolytic capacitors, double layer...

Standardization

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

http://www.iec.ch/

Power capacitors for induction heat generation systems – Part 1: General information. - CEI 60110-1 - 1998
Power capacitors for induction heat generation systems – Part 2: Ageing test, destruction test and disconnection test requirements for internal fuses. - CEI 60110-2...