DocumentCode
665824
Title
Development of a modular configurable multi-megawatt power amplifier
Author
Ledezma, Enrique ; Kaiyu Wang ; Keister, Thomas ; Edwards, R. ; Pipho, Randy ; Palle, Bhaskara ; Kulkarni, Devdatta ; Salem, Thomas E. ; Fox, J. Curtiss ; Parsa, Leila
Author_Institution
TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co., Round Rock, TX, USA
fYear
2013
fDate
10-13 Nov. 2013
Firstpage
631
Lastpage
636
Abstract
This paper details the design and development work for fabricating a modular and configurable multi-megawatt power amplifier. The impetus for creating the amplifier was to enable electric grid code standards testing for interconnection of large wind turbines. However, the flexible nature of the amplifier topology and control readily enables its use as a multipurpose power interconnect converter.
Keywords
power amplifiers; power convertors; power grids; wind turbines; amplifier topology; electric grid code standards testing; modular configurable multimegawatt power amplifier; multipurpose power interconnect converter; wind turbines; Control systems; Inverters; Power amplifiers; Power conversion; Real-time systems; Testing; Voltage control; Cascaded Inverter; Configurable; Modular; Multi-megawatt; Multilevel; Power Converter; Regenerative;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Vienna
ISSN
1553-572X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IECON.2013.6699208
Filename
6699208
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