Code
01D33711
Duration
01 October 2011 → 31 August 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Automation and control systems
- Electrical energy production and distribution
- Renewable power and energy systems engineering
- Power electronics not elsewhere classified
- Wind energy
Keywords
small-scale wind turbines
current waveform shaping
rectifier topology and control
Project description
This research project focuses on the investigation of 1) the efficiency increase of variable-speed distributed generators by optimizing the generator-rectifier interaction and 2) the power quality increase and converter robustness by optimizing the rectifier-inverter and inverter-grid interaction. These goals will be achieved by using current waveform optimization in the generator, a higher MPPt reaction speed and an improved rectifier topology.