Full-power converter based test bench for low voltage ride-through testing of wind turbine converters

Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pöllänen, Riku ^a   Kankainen, Lasse ^a   Pääkkönen, Mikko ^a   Ollila, Jaakko ^b   Strandberg, Stefan ^b  

^a Switch Drive Systems Oy ^*  (Finland)

^b Vacon Plc   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fault ride through; Test bench; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

FAULT-RIDE THROUGH; FULL SCALE TESTS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; SHUNT IMPEDANCE; TEST BENCHES; VOLTAGE DIP; VOLTAGE SAGS;

POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TESTING;

EID: 80053479419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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