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Understanding wind turbine power converter reliability under realistic wind conditions (2024)
Journal Article
Alsaadi, S., Crabtree, C. J., Matthews, P. C., & Shahbazi, M. (2024). Understanding wind turbine power converter reliability under realistic wind conditions. IET Power Electronics, 17(4), 524-533. https://doi.org/10.1049/pel2.12670

The reliability of wind turbine power converters is crucial for analyzing wind energy project costs, and for estimating maintenance and downtime. The published literature in this field relies on evaluating the reliability effect of wind speed to esti... Read More about Understanding wind turbine power converter reliability under realistic wind conditions.

Control strategy assessment for wind turbine converter reliability (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsaadi, S., Mathews, P., & Crabtree, C. (2022). Control strategy assessment for wind turbine converter reliability. In 11th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2022). https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.1052

Converter reliability has a high impact on wind turbine reliability and therefore cost of wind energy. The wind turbine industry is adopting two control strategies for power converters, Direct Torque Control (DTC) and Field Oriented Control (FOC). Bo... Read More about Control strategy assessment for wind turbine converter reliability.