Reduction of power fluctuations of a large-scale grid-connected offshore wind farm using a variable frequency transformer

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-234

  Wang, Li ^a   Chen, Long Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG); dynamic stability; offshore wind farm (OWF); variable frequency transformer (VFT)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CONTROL SCHEMES; DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; EQUIVALENT-CIRCUIT MODEL; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN APPROACH; GRID-CONNECTED; LINEARIZED SYSTEMS; NOVEL CONTROL SCHEME; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; POWER FLUCTUATIONS; POWER GRIDS; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME DOMAIN; UTILITY GRIDS; VARIABLE FREQUENCIES;

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; WIND POWER;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959555679     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2011.2142406     Document Type: Article

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