A new method to connect wind turbines equipped with DFIGs to the power grid using FCL and STATCOM

International Review on Modelling and Simulations

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 598-603

  Fazli, Mehrdad ^a   Jahani, Rouzbeh ^a   Fazli, Ali ^a   Olamaei, Javad ^a   Shayanfar, Heidar Ali ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs); Fault Current Limiter (FCL); Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM); Wind Turbine

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955578845     PISSN: 19749821     EISSN: 25331701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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