7MVA ETO light NPC converter for multi-MW direct-driven wind turbine application

2009 IEEE Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications, PEMWA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Li, Jun ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Jing, Wei ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Emitter turn off (ETO) thyristor; ETO Light NPC converter; Large wind turbine; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT SELECTION; DIRECT-DRIVEN; DIRECT-DRIVEN WIND TURBINE; EMITTER TURN-OFF (ETO) THYRISTOR; EMITTER TURN-OFF THYRISTOR; FULL-SCALE CONVERTER; HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; LARGE WIND TURBINES; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; OFFSHORE APPLICATIONS; PM GENERATOR; POWER RATINGS; PREFERRED SOLUTIONS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; UTILITY INTERFACE;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; THERMOANALYSIS; THYRISTORS; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 77950841736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEMWA.2009.5208382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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