Design and coordination of a capacitor and on-load tap changer system for voltage control in a wind power plant of doubly fed induction generator wind turbines

Wind Energy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 507-523

  Martínez, Jorge ^a   Rodriguez, Pedro ^b   Kjær, Philip C ^a   Teodorescu, Remus ^c  

^a VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

capacitor bank; doubly fed generator; OLTC; STATCOM; voltage control; Wind turbine generator

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; DROPS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; POWER PLANTS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REACTIVE POWER; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATORS; TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CAPACITOR BANK; DOUBLY FED GENERATORS; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR (DFIG); ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENT PROGRAM SIMULATIONS; OLTC; REACTIVE POWER CAPABILITY; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATOR; REACTIVE POWER INJECTIONS;

ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM; DESIGN; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INSTALLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER PLANT; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84861336203     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.474     Document Type: Article

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