Power electronic converters in wind energy systems - Considerations of reliability and strategies for increasing availability

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Boettcher, Matthias ^a   Fuchs, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Availability; Condition monitoring; Fault tolerance; Power electronic converter; Prognosis; Reliability; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANT CONVERTER TOPOLOGY; FAULT TOLERANT OPERATIONS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTER; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; PROGNOSIS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL DATAS; WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS;

AVAILABILITY; CONDITION MONITORING; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 80053522542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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