Voltage-sag tolerance of DFIG wind turbine with a series grid side passive-impedance network

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1048-1056

  Yan, Xiangwu ^a   Venkataramanan, Giri ^b   Flannery, Patrick S ^c   Wang, Yang ^b   Dong, Qing ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG); low voltage ride through (LVRT); voltage sag ride through; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

BALANCED AND UNBALANCED FAULT; DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR; ELECTRIC GRIDS; ELECTRIC UTILITY GRID; FAULT EVENT; GRID CURRENT; HARDWARE EXPERIMENT; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LINE OPERATIONS; LOW COSTS; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; RIDE-THROUGH; VOLTAGE SAGS;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CODES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 78649955821     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2010.2054097     Document Type: Article

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