A simple power converter for variable speed wind turbine

Author

Casini, D. ; Marola, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Syst. & Autom., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 June 2009

Firstpage

604

Lastpage

608

Abstract

The paper focuses on the design of a power interface for connecting a small power wind turbine to a single phase power plant. In general, when the wind speed drops under a given level, the traditional systems are not able to work in a satisfactory way. The proposed technique, which employs a step-up power converter for feeding the utility grid through an unidirectional full bridge inverter, allows to transfer energy even in case of low variable wind turbine speed.

Keywords

bridge circuits; invertors; power convertors; power grids; wind power plants; wind turbines; low-variable wind turbine speed; power converter; power interface design; single-phase power plant; step-up power converter; unidirectional full bridge inverter; utility grid feeding; variable speed wind turbine; Frequency; Mesh generation; Power electronics; Power generation; Pulse width modulation inverters; Switches; Synchronous generators; Wind energy generation; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Dispersed power generation systems; multipole permanent magnet synchronous generator; step-up power converters; variable speed wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Clean Electrical Power, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Capri

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2543-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2544-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEP.2009.5211992

Filename

5211992