Performance improvement of full-converter wind turbines under distorted conditions

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 652-660

  Leon, Andres E ^a   Solsona, Jorge A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Active damping; grid frequency variations; state estimation; voltage source converter (VSC); wind energy conversion system (WECS)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DAMPING; GRID CODE REQUIREMENTS; GRID FREQUENCY; GRID-SIDE CONVERTER CONTROLS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POWER QUALITY STANDARDS; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER CONVERTERS; STATE ESTIMATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880276274     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2013.2239317     Document Type: Article

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