The windmill topology

Author

Lee, Kevin ; Paice, Derek A. ; Armes, James E.

Author_Institution

Eaton Innovation Center, Milwaukee, WI

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

2009

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

53

Abstract

In this article, an improved three- to nine-phase windmill 18- pulse clean power ASD system is presented. A novel third harmonic circulating current calculation method is introduced and used to investigate different topologies. A system evaluation demonstrates the steady state and dynamic performance of a complete rectifier and PWM motor drive.The state-of-the-art simulation is built on the complete system consisting of the utility source, windmill nine-phase autotransformer, nine-phase rectifier bridge, DC link capacitor, inverter with SVPWM, and induction machine with load.

Keywords

PWM invertors; PWM rectifiers; autotransformers; bridge circuits; induction motor drives; variable speed drives; wind power plants; 18-pulse power ASD system; DC link capacitor; SVPWM inverter; adjustable speed drive; induction machine; motor drive; nine-phase autotransformer; nine-phase rectifier bridge; space vector pulse width modulation; steady state performance; third harmonic current calculation method; three-to-nine-phase windmill topology; Bridges; Capacitors; DC motors; Induction motors; Pulse width modulation inverters; Rectifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Steady-state; Topology; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industry Applications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-2618

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIAS.2009.931818

Filename

4781841