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Fault Tolerant AC/DC/AC Converters for Wind Energy Turbine with Doubly-Fed Induction Generator

Shahbazi, Mahmoud | 2012

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  1. Type of Document: Ph.D. Dissertation
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 43668 (05)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Electrical Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Zolghadri, Mohammad Reza; Saadate, Shahrokh
  7. Abstract:
  8. AC/DC/AC converters are widely being used in a variety of power applications. Continuity of service of these systems, as well as their reliability and performance are now of the major concerns. Indeed, the failure of the converter can lead to the total or partial loss of the control of the phase currents and can cause serious system malfunction or even shutdown. Thus, uncompensated faults can quickly endanger the system. Therefore, to prevent the spread of the fault to the other system components and to ensure continuity of service, fault tolerant converter topologies associated with quick and effective fault detection and compensation methods must be implemented. In this thesis, the continuity of service of three AC/DC/AC fault tolerant converters with or without redundancy, in the presence of a fault in one of their switches is studied. Two types of applications are considered: the supply of a three-phase load and a wind energy conversion system based on a DFIG. An FPGA-based implementation is used for fault detection, in order to reduce the detection time as much as possible. Three optimizations in the fault detection method are also presented. During these researches, the three proposed converter topologies and their controllers are validated in simulations and also experimentally, while being validated in a “FPGA in the Loop” prototyping.

  9. Keywords:
  10. Fault Detection ; Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) ; Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ; Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) ; Fault Tolerance

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