A Review of Methods to Increase the Availability of Wind Turbine Generator Systems

Journal article (2016)

Authors

U. Shipurkar DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage - EEMCS
H. Polinder DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage - EEMCS
Jan Abraham Ferreira Electrical Power Processing
Research Group
DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2016 U. Shipurkar, H. Polinder, Jan Abraham Ferreira
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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Electrical Sustainable Energy

Research Group

DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage

Abstract

Availability is an important factor to be considered when designing wind turbine generator systems. The quest for increasing availability is based on the following five design approaches - design for component reliability, active control for reliability, design for fault tolerance, prognostics, and design for maintainability. This paper reviews methods focussing on the first three, i.e. component reliability, active control, and fault tolerance. The paper further identifies some promising directions for further research.