Coordinated control of cascaded current-source converter based offshore wind farm

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 557-565

  Popat, M ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Liu, Fangrui ^a   Zargari, N ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascaded current source converter; dc link current control; offshore wind farms; wind farm supervisory control (WFSC)

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-SOURCE CONVERTERS; DC-LINK; MAXIMUM POWER TRACKING; PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR; SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATIONS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; POWER CONVERTERS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; WIND EFFECTS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84883212762     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2012.2191986     Document Type: Article

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