Feed-forward transient current control for low-voltage ride-through enhancement of DFIG wind turbines

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 836-843

  Liang, Jiaqi ^a   Qiao, Wei ^c   Harley, Ronald G ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG); Low voltage ride through (LVRT); Transient current control; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

AC-SIDE; ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CONTROL SCHEMES; CONVENTIONAL CURRENTS; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATORS; DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR; ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION; FEED-FORWARD; INDUCED VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER GRIDS; ROTOR CURRENT; ROTOR-SIDE CONVERTER; SIMULATION RESULT; THREE PHASE FAULTS; TRANSIENT CURRENT; TRANSIENT CURRENT CONTROL; WIND ENERGY GENERATION;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER GENERATION; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 77956032032     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2010.2048033     Document Type: Article

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