The purpose of this paper is to show the working limits of a Variable Speed Wind Turbine. The system is based on a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator and a Fixed-Pitch Wind Turbine. The machine rotor is connected to the network through an AC/AC Converter in order to allow energy recovery. Thermal, mechanical and electric limits are investigated. The study of the machine is based on a steady state m...

Railway traction is a more stochastic heavy load connected system. Due to the usage of ac-dc converters and ac-ac converters, the various power quality issues become the major problems in the electric system. This paper presents a review on power quality conditioners suitable for Railway traction based on the configuration, components involved and on the technical and economic considerations. M...

The presented paper deals with the implementation of the Switching Table Based Direct Torque Control (ST-DTC) in the matrix converter-fed induction motor drive. In order to improve the control of the matrix converter input power factor, the use of the simplified Indirect Space Vector Modulation (ISVM) was proposed. To verify the feasibility of the proposed solution, experimental results were pr...

This paper presents a new method to compensate the nonlinearity for matrix converter drives using disturbance observer. The nonlinearity of matrix converter drives such as commutation delay, turn-on and turn-off time of switching device, and on-state switching device voltage drop is modeled by disturbance observer and compensated. The proposed method does not need any additional hardware and of...

People usually research modulation mode 3 of SVM for matrix converter discussed in this paper. Actually, other different modulation modes of SVM for matrix converter are worth studying. Two novel modulation modes are put forward for matrix converter for the first time in this paper, expanding its modulation modes of SVM. First, SVM for matrix converter is described. Then the 3 modulation modes ...

The matrix converter system is competitive solution to replace the conventional two stage ac to ac converter. In this paper, a matrix converter driving a speed-controlled induction machine is examined under open-switch fault. First, a-predictive direct torque method is proposed using only the motor torque and current. Second, a motor speed control is presented. The proposed techniques do not re...