Power capability investigation based on electrothermal models of press-pack IGBT three-level NPC and ANPC VSCs for multimegawatt wind turbines

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3195-3206

  Senturk, Osman S ^a   Helle, Lars ^b   Munk Nielsen, Stig ^c   Rodriguez, Pedro ^d   Teodorescu, Remus ^c  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A S   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrothermal model; full scale converter; neutral point clamped (NPC); power capability; power loss; press pack insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); reactive power support; thermal model; three level (3L); voltage source converter (VSC); wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-THERMAL MODEL; FULL-SCALE CONVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT- CLAMPED (NPC); POWER CAPABILITY; POWER-LOSSES; REACTIVE POWER SUPPORT; THERMAL MODEL; THREE LEVEL (3L); VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER CONVERTERS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); REACTIVE POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84859747940     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2182661     Document Type: Article

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