Control scheme for low voltage ride-through compliance in back-to-back NPC converter based wind power systems

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2357-2362

  Alepuz, Salvador ^a   Calle, Alejandro ^a   Busquets Monge, Sergio ^a   Bordonau, Josep ^a   Kouro, Samir ^b   Wu, Bin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CONTROL SCHEMES; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; GRID CONNECTIONS; GRID VOLTAGE; GRID-SIDE CONVERTER; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS; POWER SYSTEM OPERATORS; POWER SYSTEMS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSIENT OPERATION; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM; WIND POWER SYSTEMS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; WIND POWER;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78650323807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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