A proposal of improving the reliability of a wind farm using thyristor inverter connected in series with rectified outputs of the generators

Author

Tatsuta, Fujio ; Nishikata, Shoji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Multimedia Design, Tokyo Denki Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A new topology for improving the reliability of a wind farm consisting of a set of wind turbine generators and a current-source thyristor inverter with series connected rectified outputs of the generators is proposed, and the basic characteristics of the whole system are explored from computer simulation and experimental results. In the proposed method, a diode is connected in parallel with each output of the rectifier for the turbine/generators to secure a continuing operation in the events of lack of output due to insufficient wind.

Keywords

invertors; power generation reliability; wind power plants; wind turbines; current-source thyristor inverter; wind farm reliability; wind turbine generators; Character generation; Computer simulation; Diodes; Inverters; Proposals; Rectifiers; Thyristors; Topology; Wind farms; Wind turbines; Renewable Energy; Thyristor Rectifier; Wind Farm; Wind Turbine Generating System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines and Systems, 2009. ICEMS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5177-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-88686-067-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMS.2009.5382775

Filename

5382775