TY - JOUR
T1 - A doubly-fed induction generator test facility for grid fault ride-through analysis
AU - Atkinson, David
AU - Pannell, Graham
AU - Cao, Wenping
AU - Zahawi, Bashar
AU - Abeyasekera, Tusitha
AU - Jovanovic, Milutin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - With the increasing concerns over climate change and fossil fuel depletion, exploitation of renewable energy has become paramount in electricity generation. Currently, it is wind energy that is firmly in the spotlight. The last three decades have seen increasing proliferation of wind power generation, and much effort and substantial funding have been directed towards developing larger and better wind turbine (WT) power generation systems. These efforts have led to substantial improvements in turbine blades, turbine generators, drive trains, and control methods. Among all of the technologies used for wind turbine generators, variable speed doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) are the dominant installation in medium and large sized WTs. A salient feature of this technology is that the stator is connected to the power grid, and the rotor is fed by back-to-back converters to meet the requirements for variable speed operation. In a DFIG wind turbine generator, rotor speed typically varies by ±30% around the synchronous speed, and an economic advantage is gained from downsized power converters which require only a fraction of the total power of the DFIG.
AB - With the increasing concerns over climate change and fossil fuel depletion, exploitation of renewable energy has become paramount in electricity generation. Currently, it is wind energy that is firmly in the spotlight. The last three decades have seen increasing proliferation of wind power generation, and much effort and substantial funding have been directed towards developing larger and better wind turbine (WT) power generation systems. These efforts have led to substantial improvements in turbine blades, turbine generators, drive trains, and control methods. Among all of the technologies used for wind turbine generators, variable speed doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) are the dominant installation in medium and large sized WTs. A salient feature of this technology is that the stator is connected to the power grid, and the rotor is fed by back-to-back converters to meet the requirements for variable speed operation. In a DFIG wind turbine generator, rotor speed typically varies by ±30% around the synchronous speed, and an economic advantage is gained from downsized power converters which require only a fraction of the total power of the DFIG.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870950338&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MIM.2012.6365539
DO - 10.1109/MIM.2012.6365539
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84870950338
SN - 1094-6969
VL - 15
SP - 20
EP - 27
JO - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine
JF - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine
IS - 6
M1 - 6365539
ER -