Design considerations of Vienna rectifier-B4 converter for wind energy application

Author

Najafi, Parviz ; Rajaei, Amirhossein ; Mohamadian, Mustafa ; Yazdian Varjani, Ali

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2014

fDate

5-6 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

113

Abstract

In this paper, design considerations of a wind energy conversion system including permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG), Vienna rectifier and four-switch three-phase inverter (B4) is investigated. Vienna rectifier is used as PMSG generator side converter to rectify AC output voltage of PMSG wind generator and to build two equal DC voltages. The B4 inverter injects the active and reactive power to the grid. System design considerations including IGBT cost comparison and total switching device power is conducted. Also reliability analysis is presented to compare the Vienna B4 interface with other wind energy conversion systems. Simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of the system.

Keywords

AC-DC power convertors; invertors; permanent magnet generators; rectifying circuits; synchronous generators; wind power plants; PMSG; Vienna rectifier B4 converter; four switch inverter; permanent magnet synchronous generator; three phase inverter; wind energy application; wind energy conversion system; Adaptive algorithms; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Rectifiers; Reliability; Switches; Turbines; Cost evaluation; Four switch three phase inverter; Vienna Rectifier; Wind energy application; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Drive Systems and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC), 2014 5th

Conference_Location

Tehran

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDSTC.2014.6799353

Filename

6799353