Reactive power influence on the thermal cycling of multi-mw wind power inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 922-930

  Ma, Ke ^a   Liserre, Marco ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3L NPC converter; Reactive power control; thermal cycling; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

3L-NPC CONVERTER; GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS; JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; PARALLELED CONVERTER SYSTEM; PARALLELED CONVERTERS; POWER CONVERSION SYSTEMS; THERMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; THERMAL CYCLING; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84875203373     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2240644     Document Type: Article

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