Maximum power point tracking for variable-speed fixed-pitch small wind turbines

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 550 CP, 2009, Pages

  Putrus, Ghanim ^a   Narayana, Mahinsasa ^a   Jovanovic, Milutin ^a   Leung, Pak Sing ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONTROL; AERODYNAMIC POWER; CONTROL OF WIND TURBINES; ELECTRICAL GENERATORS; MAXIMUM POWER OUTPUT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; POWER OUT PUT; ROTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTOR SPEED; SMALL WIND TURBINE; TURBULENT WIND; VARIABLE SPEED; VARIABLE-SPEED WIND TURBINE; WIND ROTOR; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FUZZY LOGIC; GAS DYNAMICS; GRAPH THEORY; OPTICAL FLOWS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PUMPS; SPEED; TURBOGENERATORS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 70450211132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2009.0827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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