Flicker mitigation by active power control of variable-speed wind turbines with full-scale back-to-back power converters

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 640-649

  Hu, Weihao ^a,b   Chen, Zhe ^b   Wang, Yue ^a   Wang, Zhaoan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distribution systems; Flicker; Flicker mitigation controller (FMC); Variable speed wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; ACTIVE POWER CONTROL; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; FLICKER; FLICKER EMISSION; FLICKER MITIGATION; FLICKER MITIGATION CONTROLLER (FMC); FULL-SCALE CONVERTER; GRID IMPEDANCE; GRID-CONNECTED; POWER SOURCES; PSCAD/EMTDC; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION TOOL; TOWER SHADOW; VARIABLE-SPEED WIND TURBINE; WIND SHEARS;

CONTROLLERS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ENGINES; POWER CONVERTERS; REACTIVE POWER; SPEED; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 70049087705     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2009.2015994     Document Type: Article

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