Small wind turbine power control in intermittent wind gusts

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 624-637

  Bystryk, J ^a,b   Sullivan, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Integrated Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Power control; Power point tracking; Small generators; Wind turbine control

Indexed keywords

WIND; WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTER MODELING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; GENERATOR CONTROLS; POWER POINT TRACKING; RATED WIND SPEED; SMALL SCALE WIND TURBINES; SMALL WIND TURBINE; WIND TURBINE CONTROL;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 79955644629     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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