Transient grounding characteristics of an actual wind turbine generator system at a low-resistivity site

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-26

  Yamamoto, Kazuo ^a   Yanagawa, Shunichi ^b   Sekioka, Shozo ^c   Yokoyama, Shigeru ^d  

^a KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Shoden Co   (Japan)

^c SHONAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lightning; Low voltage system; Overvoltage; Transient grounding characteristics; Wind turbine generator system

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLYSIS; LIGHTNING; TURBOGENERATORS; WIND POWER;

DISPOSAL SITES; GROUND POTENTIAL; GROUNDING SYSTEMS; HIGH WINDS; IMPULSE TEST; LOW-VOLTAGE SYSTEMS; OVERVOLTAGE TRANSIENT; POTENTIAL RISE; STEADY STATE; TALL STRUCTURES; TRANSIENT CHARACTERISTIC; WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEMS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 77952016717     PISSN: 19314973     EISSN: 19314981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tee.20488     Document Type: Article

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