Fault tolerant generator systems for wind turbines

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 675-681

  Polinder, H ^a   Lendenmann, H ^b   Chin, R ^b   Arshad, W M ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL MACHINE; FAULT TOLERANT CONVERTER TOPOLOGY; FAULT-TOLERANT; GAIN INSIGHT; GENERATOR SYSTEMS; LITERATURE SURVEY; PM MACHINES; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE;

ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ENGINES; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; PERMANENT MAGNETS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 70349473256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMDC.2009.5075278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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