Grid Impact of a 20 kW Variable Speed Wind Turbine
Paper in proceeding, 1999

The power quality impact of a 20 kW direct-driven variable speed wind turbine equipped with passive blade pitching has been investigated. The electrical system of the turbine consists of a 66-pole permanent magnet synchronous generator, a diode rectifier and a thyristor inverter. The turbine causes a relatively high flicker in the medium wind speed range, but small changes in the dc-link can reduce this. The voltage distortion is small while the harmonic current injection reaches 10 % at rated wind speed. The investigation also shows that the passive pitch system allows high power quality

Author

Torbjörn Thiringer

Department of Electric Power Engineering, Power Electronics and Wind Energy

Wolfgang Hesse

Anders Grauers

Department of Electric Power Engineering, Power Electronics and Wind Energy

Rolf Ottersten

Department of Electric Power Engineering, Power Electronics and Wind Energy

Tomas Petru

Department of Electric Power Engineering, Power Electronics and Wind Energy

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC ´99), Nice, France March 1-5, 1999

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Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

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10/7/2017