Thermal analysis of multilevel grid-side converters for 10-MW wind turbines under low-voltage ride through

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 909-921

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

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Low voltage ride through (LVRT); multilevel converter; thermal analysis; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER SOLUTIONS; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; HIGHER JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; LOWVOLTAGE RIDE THROUGH (LVRT); MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; LOADING; POWER CONVERTERS; THERMOANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84875629235     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2240643     Document Type: Article

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