Hexagram-converter-based STATCOM for voltage support in fixed-speed wind turbine generation systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1120-1131

  Slepchenkov, Mikhail N ^a   Smedley, Keyue Ma ^a   Wen, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Converters; displacement control; multilevel systems; power distribution; power electronics; power transmission lines; reactive power control; static VAR compensators (SVCs); wind energy

Indexed keywords

CONVERTERS; DISPLACEMENT CONTROL; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER TRANSMISSION LINES; STATIC VAR COMPENSATORS (SVCS); WIND ENERGY;

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POWER CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS; REACTIVE POWER; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TURBINES; VALUE ENGINEERING; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WIND POWER;

SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 79952639854     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2052536     Document Type: Article

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