• DocumentCode
    2360943
  • Title

    Experimental validation of multilevel converters for variable speed wind turbines

  • Author

    Villate, Jose Luis ; Ceballos, Salvador ; Robles, Eider ; Ibanez, Pedro ; Gabiola, Igor

  • Author_Institution
    Parque Tecnologico Edif, ROBOTIKER
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    11-14 Sept. 2005
  • Abstract
    Wind energy is undergoing a rapid development in size and capacity. Multilevel converters show interesting advantages in this field, such as high efficiency and low harmonic distortion. This work is focused on the analysis of these two features offering experimental results which verify the improvement of this kind of converters on the traditional two level topologies. Finally, we describe an experimental test bench where we intend to continue the validation of other features of multilevel converters such as performance under voltage sags and wind speed variations
  • Keywords
    harmonic distortion; network topology; power convertors; power supply quality; wind turbines; harmonic distortion; multilevel converters; test bench; variable speed wind turbines; voltage sags; wind speed variations; Feeds; Mesh generation; Power quality; Rotors; Synchronous generators; Testing; Topology; Voltage; Wind energy; Wind turbines; Efficiency; Harmonics; Multilevel Converters; Wind energy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden
  • Print_ISBN
    90-75815-09-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EPE.2005.219530
  • Filename
    1665720