Fault-tolerant control for a modular generatorconverter scheme for direct-drive wind turbines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 305-315

  Parker, Max A ^a   Ng, Chong ^b   Ran, Li ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c New and Renewable Energy Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boost rectifier; control; fault tolerance; modularity; multilevel inverter; permanent magnet (PM) generator; wind power

Indexed keywords

BOOST RECTIFIER; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; COIL CURRENT; DC LINKS; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; DIRECT DRIVE; FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL; FAULT TOLERANT OPERATIONS; GRID INTERFACES; LOW FREQUENCY; MODULARITY; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; PERMANENT-MAGNET (PM) GENERATOR; POWER CONVERSION STAGES; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; WIND TURBINE GENERATORS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; FAULT TOLERANCE; PERMANENT MAGNETS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 78650203561     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2045318     Document Type: Article

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