Imbalance fault detection of direct-drive wind turbines using generator current signals

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 468-476

  Gong, Xiang ^a   Qiao, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Current signal; direct drive wind turbine; fault detection; imbalance fault; power spectral density (PSD)

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; CURRENT SIGNAL; DIRECT DRIVE; DOWNSAMPLING; GENERATOR CURRENT; GENERATOR STATORS; GENERATOR TERMINALS; IMBALANCE FAULT; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NONSTATIONARY; PHASE STATORS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY ANALYSIS; ROTATING FREQUENCIES; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; UPSAMPLING; VARIABLE RATE;

FAULT DETECTION; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATORS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84861460133     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2012.2189008     Document Type: Article

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