Scaling laws for direct drive generators in wind turbines

2009 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, IEMDC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 797-803

  Shrestha, G ^a   Polinder, H ^a   Ferreira, J A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DRIVE; DIRECT DRIVE GENERATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; POWER LEVELS; STRUCTURAL MATERIALS; SUB-COMPONENTS; UPSCALING;

ASPECT RATIO; BUILDING MATERIALS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ENGINES; PRESSURE DROP; SCALING LAWS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 70349454242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMDC.2009.5075295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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