Medium voltage three-level converters for the grid connection of a multi-MW wind turbine

Osman Selcuk Senturk; Lars Helle; Stig Munk-Nielsen; Pedro Rodrihuez; Remus Teodorescu

Medium voltage three-level converters for the grid connection of a multi-MW wind turbine

Osman Selcuk Senturk, Lars Helle, Stig Munk-Nielsen, Pedro Rodrihuez, Remus Teodorescu

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Abstract

Three-level (3L) neutral point clamped (NPC), flying capacitor (FC), and H-bridge (HB) voltage source converters (VSCs) as a grid-side full-scale medium voltage (MV) converter are modeled, controlled, and simulated for the grid connection of a hypothetical 6MW wind turbine. Via the converter topological features and the simulation results demonstrating the converter performance, these three 3L-VSCs are discussed and compared in terms of power density and reliability, which can be considered as two of the most important criteria for the converters placed in wind turbine nacelles. Given the grid connection circuit (without capacitive switching ripple filters), the 3L-HB-VSC is expected to be superior with respect to power density and reliability over the 3L-NPC- and -FC-VSCs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2009
Number of pages	8
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2009
Pages	1-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4244-4432-8
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2009 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 8 Sept 2009 → 10 Sept 2009 Conference number: 13

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Conference	European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2009
Number	13
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	08/09/2009 → 10/09/2009

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INSPEC Accession Number:10939436

Keywords

Multilevel converters
Wind energy

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