10 MW wind turbine direct-drive generator design with pitch or active speed stall control

Proceedings of IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, IEMDC 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1390-1395

  Polinder, H ^a   Bang, D ^a   Van Rooij, R P J O M ^a   McDonald, A S ^b   Mueller, M A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct drive; Permanent magnet generator; Synchronous generator; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROTORS; SPEED CONTROL; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

DIRECT-DRIVES; PERMANENT-MAGNET GENERATORS; WIND SPEED;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 35048825384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMDC.2007.383632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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