Power Electronics for the Next Generation Wind Turbine System

✍ Scribed by Ke Ma (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Series: Research Topics in Wind Energy 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents recent studies on the power electronics used for the next generation wind turbine system. Some criteria and tools for evaluating and improving the critical performances of the wind power converters have been proposed and established. The book addresses some emerging problems as well as possibilities for the wind power conversion, and may be useful as an inspiring reference for the researchers in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-17
Promising Topologies and Power Devices for Wind Power Converter....Pages 19-29
Criteria and Tools for Evaluating Wind Power Converter....Pages 31-43
Thermal Stress of 10-MW Wind Power Converter Under Normal Operation....Pages 45-62
Stress Analysis of 3L-NPC Wind Power Converter Under Fault Condition....Pages 63-93
Conclusions and Future Works....Pages 95-97
Appendix....Pages 99-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Impacts of Power Switching Devices to the Thermal Performances of 10 MW Wind Power NPC Converter....Pages 107-122
Reliability-Cost Models for the Power Switching Devices of Wind Power Converters....Pages 123-138
Electro-Thermal Model of Power Semiconductors Dedicated for Both Case and Junction Temperature Estimation....Pages 139-143
Reactive Power Influence on the Thermal Cycling of Multi-MW Wind Power Inverter....Pages 145-157
Thermal Loading of Several Multilevel Converter Topologies for 10 MW Wind Turbines Under Low Voltage Ride Through....Pages 159-179
Another Groups of Thermal Optimized Modulation Methods of Three-Level Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverter Under Low Voltage Ride Through....Pages 181-187
Limits of the Power Controllability of Three-Phase Converter with Unbalanced AC Source....Pages 189-196

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Renewable and Green Energy; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks