Five-leg converter topology for wind energy conversion system with doubly fed induction generator

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3187-3194

  Shahbazi, Mahmoud ^a,c   Poure, Philippe ^b   Saadate, Shahrokh ^a   Zolghadri, Mohammad Reza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG); Five leg converter; Hardware in the loop (HIL); Wind energy conversion system (WECS)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; BACK-TO-BACK CONVERTER; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; DIGITAL CONTROL; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATORS; DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR; EFFICIENT CONTROL; FIVE-LEG CONVERTER; FULLY DIGITAL CONTROLLER; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; HARDWARE IN THE LOOP (HIL); OPERATION POINT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PWM CONTROL; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM (WECS);

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; HARDWARE; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER;

EID: 79957842524     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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