Cost effective fully fed wind turbine HTS generator: An alternative to existing generators in offshore wind farms

India International Conference on Power Electronics, IICPE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Umashankar, S ^a   Kothari, D P ^a   Vijayakumar, D ^a   Vasudevan, M ^b   Chillapalli, Bhanuprasad ^a  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Grid integration; High temperature super conductors; Offshore; Reliability; Wind industry

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVE; DIRECT DRIVE; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; GENERATOR UNIT; GRID INTEGRATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; HTS GENERATORS; HTS WIRES; LOW COSTS; MAINTENANCE COST; MARKET DRIVEN; MARKET TRENDS; OFFSHORE; OFFSHORE FARM; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; RELIABLE OPERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; WIND INDUSTRY; RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; INDUSTRY; MAINTENANCE; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TURBINES; WIND POWER; COMMERCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; GEARS; WIND TURBINES;

COSTS; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

EID: 79953144043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IICPE.2011.5728096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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