New constant electrical power soft-stalling control for small-scale VAWTs

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1152-1161

  Ahmed, Ashraf ^a   Ran, Li ^a   Bumby, Jim R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High wind velocity control; permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG); power control; soft stalling; vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT)

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT OVERLOADING; CONSTANT POWER; CONTROL SCHEMES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CURRENT FEEDBACK; DC SIDE; ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICAL POWER; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING CONTROLS; NORMAL OPERATIONS; OVERSPEEDING; PERMANENT MAGNET GENERATOR; PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR; PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR (PMSG); SOFT STALLING; TURBINE SPEED; URBAN AREAS; VERTICAL-AXIS WIND TURBINES; WIND VELOCITIES;

CONTROLLERS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POWER CONTROL; PUMPS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY CONTROL; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649445386     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2010.2043737     Document Type: Article

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