Controller hardware-in-the-loop validation for a0 10 MVA ETO-based STATCOM for wind farm application

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1398-1403

  Liu, Yu ^a   Xi, Zhengping ^a   Liang, Zhigang ^a   Song, Wenchao ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhashish ^a   Huang, Alex ^a   Langston, James ^b   Steurer, Mischa ^b   Litzenberger, Wayne ^c   Anderson, Loren ^c   Adapa, Ram ^d   Sundaram, Ashok ^d  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^d ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital control; Hardware in the loop test; Multilevel converter; Reactive power control; Real time digital simulator; STATCOM

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CONTROL; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP TEST; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; REAL TIME DIGITAL SIMULATOR; STATCOM;

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; FARMS; POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER; RESONANT TUNNELING; SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WIND POWER;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 72449158355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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