Efficiency and reliability improvement in wind turbine converters by grid converter adaptive control

Ionut Trintis; Stig Munk-Nielsen; Flemming  Abrahamsen; Paul Bach Thøgersen

doi:10.1109/EPE.2013.6631979

Efficiency and reliability improvement in wind turbine converters by grid converter adaptive control

Ionut Trintis, Stig Munk-Nielsen, Flemming Abrahamsen, Paul Bach Thøgersen

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This paper presents a control method that reduces the losses in wind turbine converters adaptively controlling the grid converter. The dc-link voltage adapts its reference based on the system state and therefore reduces the stored energy, and is therefore kept at the minimum necessary for the grid and generator side. Operating in this way, the electrical and thermal stress factors are decreased on the power electronic devices, increasing their lifetime. The simulation results using this method show efficiency increase and devices temperature cycles slightly decreased. Experimental results on a wind turbine power stack shows efficiency increase in the high power region.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013 ECCE Europe
Number of pages	9
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	2013
Pages	1-9
ISBN (Print)	9781479901159
ISBN (Electronic)	978-147990116-6, 9781479901142
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2013.6631979
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013 - Lille, France Duration: 3 Sept 2013 → 5 Sept 2013 http://www.epe2013.com/

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Conference	European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013
Country/Territory	France
City	Lille
Period	03/09/2013 → 05/09/2013
Internet address	http://www.epe2013.com/

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Trintis, I, Munk-Nielsen, S, Abrahamsen, F & Thøgersen, PB 2013, Efficiency and reliability improvement in wind turbine converters by grid converter adaptive control. in Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013 ECCE Europe. IEEE Press, pp. 1-9, European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013, Lille, France, 03/09/2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2013.6631979

Efficiency and reliability improvement in wind turbine converters by grid converter adaptive control. / Trintis, Ionut; Munk-Nielsen, Stig; Abrahamsen, Flemming et al.
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013 ECCE Europe. IEEE Press, 2013. p. 1-9.

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