Unbalanced-grid-fault ride-through control for a wind turbine inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 845-856

  Ng, Chong H ^a   Ran, Li ^a   Bumby, Jim ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Harmonic; Phase sequence; Ride through control; Unbalanced grid fault; Voltage source inverter; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; WIND TURBINES;

PHASE SEQUENCE; RIDE-THROUGH CONTROL; UNBALANCED GRID FAULT; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTER;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 44849101476     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.921429     Document Type: Article

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