A review of current issues in state-of-art of wind farm overvoltage protection

Energies

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 644-668

  Sarajcev, Petar ^a   Goic, Ranko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

EMTP model; Lightning; Overvoltage protection; Risk of failure; Surge arresters; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC SURGES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTROLYSIS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; LIGHTNING; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MOS DEVICES; SURGE PROTECTION; TRANSIENTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

DIRECT LIGHTNING STRIKES; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS PROGRAM (EMTP); LIGHTNING CURRENT PARAMETERS; LIGHTNING SURGE ANALYSIS; METAL OXIDE SURGE ARRESTERS; RISK OF FAILURE; SURGE ARRESTERS; WIND FARM;

OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION;

EID: 79955657987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en4040644     Document Type: Article

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