Loss and rating considerations of a wind energy conversion system with reactive compensation by Magnetic Energy Recovery Switch (MERS)

2008 Proceedings of the EPE Wind Energy Chapter-1st Seminar, EPE-WECS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wiik, Jan Arild ^a   Kulka, Arkadiusz ^b   Isobe, Takanori ^a   Usuki, Kazuhiro ^a   Molinas, Marta ^b   Takaku, Taku ^c   Undeland, Tore ^b   Shimada, Ryuichi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Converter circuit; Generator excitation system; Power factor correction

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER CIRCUIT; GENERATOR EXCITATION SYSTEM; MAGNETIC ENERGY RECOVERY SWITCH; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; SYNCHRONOUS REACTANCES;

ACTIVE FILTERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DROPS; ELECTRIC REACTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLUID MECHANICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER ELECTRONICS; REDUCTION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

WIND POWER;

EID: 51449109043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPEWECS.2008.4497316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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