Wind energy system with integrated functions of active power transfer, reactive power compensation, and voltage conversion

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4512-4524

  She, Xu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Burgos, Rolando ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Power electronic transformer; reactive power compensation; solid state transformer (SST); voltage regulation; wind energy; wind generation

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POWER QUALITY; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; POWER ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATOR; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMERS (SST); SQUIRREL CAGE INDUCTION GENERATORS; WIND GENERATION;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84878162534     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2216245     Document Type: Article

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