Print Email Facebook Twitter Comparing the Brushless DFIM to other Generator Systems for Wind Turbine Drive-Trains Title Comparing the Brushless DFIM to other Generator Systems for Wind Turbine Drive-Trains Author Strous, T.D. (TU Delft Electrical Power Processing) Shipurkar, U. (TU Delft DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage) Polinder, H. (TU Delft DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage) Ferreira, Jan Abraham (TU Delft Electrical Power Processing) Date 2016-10 Abstract In this paper, the brushless DFIM based wind turbine drive-train topology is compared to the DFIG based and PM generator based drive-train topologies, that are most commonly applied in modern wind turbines. The comparison will be based on a 3:2MW case study wind turbine. By using FE based multi-objective optimization, optimized generator designs for the dierent topologies are generated. Then the capital expenditures of the resulting drive-train topologies are calculated and compared. Additionally, wind turbine drive-train congurations with 1, 2 and 3 stage gearboxes as well as a direct-drive conguration are taken into account. The resulting comparison shows that the brushless DFIM based drive-train with a 2 stage gearbox conguration provides a feasible alternative in commercial wind turbine drive-train applications. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:59392305-889e-4653-bc46-2e459db05a74 DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/753/11/112014 ISSN 1742-6588 Source Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 753, 1-10 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 T.D. Strous, U. Shipurkar, H. Polinder, Jan Abraham Ferreira Files PDF 8787796.pdf 1.16 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:59392305-889e-4653-bc46-2e459db05a74/datastream/OBJ/view