Control of a switched reluctance generator for variable-speed wind energy applications

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 781-791

  Cárdenas, Roberto ^a   Peña, Rubén ^a   Pérez, Marcelo ^a   Clare, Jon ^b   Asher, Greg ^b   Wheeler, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reluctance generators; Variable speed drives; Wind energy; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

INDUCTION MACHINE DRIVE; MAGNETIZING VOLTAGE; RELUCTANCE GENERATORS; VARIABLE-SPEED DRIVES; WIND POWER GENERATION;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 29244434858     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2005.853733     Document Type: Article

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