Neural control for voltage dips ride-through of oscillating water column-based wave energy converter equipped with doubly-fed induction generator

Renewable Energy

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-26

  Alberdi, Mikel ^a   Amundarain, Modesto ^a   Garrido, Aitor ^a   Garrido, Izaskun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active crowbar; Doubly fed induction generator; Low voltage ride through; Neural control; Wave energy; Wells turbine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CROWBAR; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION-GENERATOR; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; NEURAL CONTROL; WAVE ENERGY; WELLS TURBINE;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER;

CONTROLLERS;

AMPLITUDE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; OSCILLATION; TURBINE; WATER COLUMN; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 84861337600     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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