Fault ride-through of large wind farms using series dynamic braking resistors (March 2007)

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 966-975

  Causebrook, Andrew ^a   Atkinson, David J ^a   Jack, Alan G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic braking resistors; Fault ride through; Wind farm stability; Wind turbine generators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; REACTIVE POWER; RESISTORS; TURBOGENERATORS; WIND TURBINES;

DYNAMIC BRAKING RESISTOR; FAULT RIDE-THROUGH; FIXED SPEED WIND TURBINES; WIND FARM;

WIND POWER;

EID: 34548072222     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.901658     Document Type: Article

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