Improving fault ride-through capability of variable speed wind turbines in distribution networks

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 713-722

  Mokryani, Geev ^a   Siano, Pierluigi ^a   Piccolo, Antonio ^a   Chen, Zhe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fault ride through (FRT) capability; fuzzy logic controller; weak distribution networks; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATORS; FAULT RIDE THROUGH CAPABILITY; FAULT RIDE THROUGH CAPABILITY (FRT); FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINES; WEAK DISTRIBUTION NETWORK;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FUZZY LOGIC; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 84885183041     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2012.2211812     Document Type: Article

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