Power electronics converters for wind turbine systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 708-719

  Blaabjerg, Frede ^a   Liserre, Marco ^b   Ma, Ke ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multilevel converters; power electronic conversion; renewable energy; semiconductor device reliability; wind energy

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER CONFIGURATIONS; CONVERTER TECHNOLOGY; FULL-SCALE POWER; HIGH-POWER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTICELL; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PARALLEL CONNECTIONS; POWER DENSITIES; POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS; POWER LEVELS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE RELIABILITY; SERIES CONNECTIONS; UPSCALING; WIND TURBINE POWER; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84859044676     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2181290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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