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Fault ride-through enhancement of wind turbines in distribution networks

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This paper proposes a fuzzy controller for improving fault ride-through (FRT) capability of doubly fed induction generator based wind turbines (WTs). The controller is designed in order to compensate the voltage at the point of common coupling by regulating the reactive and active power generated by WTs simultaneously. The performances of the controller are assessed in different case studies. Simulation results reveal that the proposed controller can improve the FRT capability.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 1, Fisciano, 84084, Salerno, Italy

    Geev Mokryani, Pierluigi Siano & Antonio Piccolo

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Mokryani, G., Siano, P. & Piccolo, A. Fault ride-through enhancement of wind turbines in distribution networks. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 4, 605–611 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-012-0162-7

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