Predictive control for low-voltage ride-through enhancement of three-level-boost and NPC-converter-based PMSG wind turbine

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6832-6843

  Yaramasu, Venkata ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Alepuz, Salvador ^b   Kouro, Samir ^c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Boost converter; finite control set model predictive control (FCS MPC); low voltage ride through (LVRT),neutral point clamped (NPC) converter; wind energy conversion systems (WECSs)

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; COST FUNCTIONS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC MACHINE THEORY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; TURBOGENERATORS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

BOOST CONVERTER; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; NEUTRALPOINT-CLAMPED (NPC); POWER CONVERSION SYSTEMS; SET MODELING; WIND-ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS (WECSS);

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84907484582     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2314060     Document Type: Article

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