Addressing protection challenges associated with Type 3 and Type 4 wind turbine generators

2015 68th Annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers, CPRE 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 335-344

  Chen, Bing ^a   Shrestha, Arun ^b   Ituzaro, Fred A ^b   Fischer, Normann ^b  

^a CG Power Solutions USA Inc   (United States)

^b SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ENGINEERS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER PLANTS; RELAY PROTECTION; TURBOGENERATORS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COLLECTOR CIRCUITS; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; CURRENT BEHAVIORS; CURRENT CHARACTERISTIC; DIRECTIONAL OVER-CURRENT RELAYS; SHORT CIRCUIT ANALYSIS TOOLS; THREE PHASE FAULTS; TYPE 4 WIND TURBINE GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION;

EID: 84942593570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CPRE.2015.7102177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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