Low-cost variable speed drive based on a brushless doubly-fed motor and a fractional unidirectional converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 317-325

  Shao, Shiyi ^a,b   Abdi, Ehsan ^a,b   McMahon, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WIND TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brushless doubly fed motor (BDFM); dynamic performance; phase angle controller; unidirectional converter

Indexed keywords

BRUSHLESS DOUBLY-FED MOTOR (BDFM); DOUBLY-FED; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; PHASE ANGLES; STARTING PERFORMANCE; UNIDIRECTIONAL CONVERTER;

ALGORITHMS;

VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

EID: 80053653424     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2138672     Document Type: Article

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