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Authors:
Aimad Alili
Mamadou Baïlo Camara
Brayima Dakyo
Jacques Raharijaona
Keywords: Power Electronic Converters; Wind turbine; reliability; trends
Abstract:
Wind energy has recently became the most promising renewable energy. The global cumulative installed wind power capacity increased dramatically to reach 627GW in 2019. In order to handle the growing size and more stringent grid codes, researchers have developed and improved many converters topologies. Some of these converters are commercialized while others are still in development. This paper presents the state-of-the-art of the power converters usable in wind turbine applications, an overview of the most interesting converters topologies and their efficiency in Wind Turbine Systems (WTS). As reliability became essential in WTS, especially in offshore turbines, a detailed study on the reliability of the static converters used in WTS with a comparison analyse of the most reliable configurations and their fault tolerant ability. The study shows the importance of the choice of the power converter topology in the overall reliability of WTS.
Pages: 12 to 18
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020
Publication date: November 21, 2020
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2519-8483
ISBN: 978-1-61208-826-6
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020