Operation and thermal loading of three-level Neutral-Point-Clamped wind power converter under various grid faults

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2410-2418

  Ma, K ^a   Blaabjerg, F ^a   Liserre, M ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Grid fault; LVRT; Multilevel converter; Thermal loading; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

FULL-SCALE POWER; GRID FAULT; GRID VOLTAGE; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; LVRT; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER APPLICATIONS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THERMAL LOADINGS; THREE-LEVEL;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; LOADING; POWER CONVERTERS; THERMAL LOAD; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84870864440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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