Control and performance evaluation of a flywheel energy-storage system associated to a variable-speed wind generator

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1074-1085

  Cimuca, Gabriel O ^a,b,c   Saudemont, Christophe ^b   Robyns, Benoît ^b   Radulescu, Mircea M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b Ecole des Hautes Etudes d'Ingenieur   (France)

^c Powertrain Department   (Romania)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Energy storage; Induction machine; Losses; Low speed flywheel; Power flow control; Supervisory; Wind energy conversion system

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS;

POWER-FLOW CONTROL; VARIABLE-SPEED WIND GENERATOR;

WIND POWER;

EID: 33747613775     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.878326     Document Type: Article

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