Management and control of operating regimes of cross-flow water turbines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1866-1876

  Vallet, Maria Andreica ^a,b   Bacha, Seddik ^a,c   Munteanu, Iulian ^a,d   Bratcu, Antoneta Iuliana ^a,d   Roye, Daniel ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Élena Énergie   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cross flow water turbine (CFWT) control; power hardware in the loop simulation; resonant controller; soft switching

Indexed keywords

CONTINUITY OF SERVICES; CONTROL LAWS; CROSS FLOWS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; OPERATING REGIMES; PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR; POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS; POWER GRIDS; POWER HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION; RESONANT CONTROLLER; SWITCHING SEQUENCE; SYNTHETIC VISION; WATER TURBINES;

FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SOFT SWITCHING; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79954548578     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2058073     Document Type: Article

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