Power electronics for modern wind turbines

• Main Author: Blaabjerg, Frede.
• Other Authors: Chen, Zhe.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2006.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on power electronics (Online), #1.
• Subjects: Power electronics.; Wind energy conversion systems.; Wind turbines.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text

Wind energy is now the world's fastest growing energy source. In the past 10 years, the global wind energy capacity has increased rapidly. The installed global wind power capacity has grown to 47.317GW from about 3.5GW in 1994. The global wind power industry installed 7976 MW in 2004, an increa...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Wind energy conversion
• 2. Modern power electronics and converter systems
• 2.1. Power electronic devices
• 2.2. Power electronic converters
• 3. Generator systems for wind turbines
• 3.1. Fixed-speed wind turbines
• 3.2. Variable-speed wind turbines
• 3.3. Summary of wind turbine-generator systems
• 4. Control of wind turbines
• 4.1. Active stall wind turbine with cage rotor induction generators
• 4.2. Variable pitch angle control with doubly fed generators
• 4.3. Full rated power electronic interface wind turbine systems
• 5. Electrical topologies of wind farms based on different wind turbines
• 6. Integration of wind turbines into power systems
• 6.1. Requirements of wind turbine grid integration
• 6.2. Voltage quality assessment
• Conclusion
• References
• The authors.