Multiple open-circuit faults diagnosis in back-to-back converters of PMSG drives for wind turbine systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2689-2702

  Jlassi, Imed ^a,b   Estima, Jorge O ^b   Khojet El Khil, Sejir ^a,b   Mrabet Bellaaj, Najiba ^a   Marques Cardoso, Antonio J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b CISE Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis in back to back converter; Luenberger observer; permanent magnet machines; power switch opencircuit faults; wind turbine systems.

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DRIVES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POWER CONVERTERS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; WIND TURBINES;

BACK-TO-BACK CONVERTER; LUENBERGER OBSERVERS; OPEN-CIRCUIT FAULT; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84920121771     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2342506     Document Type: Article

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