Operating and loading conditions of a three-level neutral-point-clamped wind power converter under various grid faults

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 520-529

  Ma, Ke ^a   Liserre, Marco ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Low voltage ride through (LVRT); multilevel converter; thermal loading; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; POWER CONVERTERS; THERMAL LOAD; WIND POWER;

LOADING CONDITION; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; LOWVOLTAGE RIDE THROUGH (LVRT); MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; THERMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL LOADINGS; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84893218410     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2269894     Document Type: Article

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