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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vienna
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2013.6699208
