Fault tolerant generator systems for increasing availability of wind turbines

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2009, EWEC 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4558-4563

  Polinder, H ^a   Lendenmann, H ^b   Chin, R ^b   Arshad, W M ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANT CONVERTER TOPOLOGY; FAULT-TOLERANT; GENERATOR SYSTEMS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; OFFSHORE LOCATIONS; PM MACHINES; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE;

EXHIBITIONS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84870012877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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