Electromagnetic-thermal design optimization of the brushless doubly fed induction generator

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1710-1721

  Gorginpour, Hamed ^a   Oraee, Hashem ^a   McMahon, Richard A ^b,c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c WIND TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brushless doubly fed induction generator (BDFIG); design optimization; power to weight ratio; spatial harmonics; wind generator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WIND TURBINES;

BRUSHLESS DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR (BDFIG); DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; POWER-TO-WEIGHT RATIOS; SPATIAL HARMONIC; WIND GENERATOR SYSTEMS;

ROTORS (WINDINGS);

EID: 84887277634     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2267705     Document Type: Article

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