Sensorless variable-speed controller for existing fixed-speed wind power generator with unity-power-factor operation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1007-1015

  Poddar, Gautam ^a   Joseph, Aby ^a   Unnikrishnan, A K ^a  

^a Electronics Research and Development   (India)

Author keywords

Front end converter; Sensorless control; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; POWER CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER GENERATION; REACTIVE POWER; ROTORS; SPEED CONTROL; TORQUE CONTROL; WIND POWER;

FRONT END CONVERTER; SENSORLESS CONTROL; SQUIRREL CAGE INDUCTION GENERATORS; UNITY POWER FACTOR OPERATION; VARIABLE SPEED CONTROLLER; WIND POWER GENERATOR;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

EID: 0141987490     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2003.817689     Document Type: Article

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