High-Temperature Superconducting Wind Turbine Generators
This chapter overviews the historical development of superconductivity and studies the feasibility of its application in wind turbine generators. High temperature superconductors (HTS) are gaining in popularity due to the increasing performance and reducing costs. Potentially the HTS can provide higher current density, higher torque density, higher efficiency and better performance than conventional copper-based machines. If the machine size is multi-MW and above, the overall cost and system efficiency would justify the use of superconductors. Wind turbines are seen in constant increase in their power rating. Currently the wind turbine generators of 5-7.5 MW are commercially available in the marketplace and these of 10 MW are under development. In this chapter, the topologies and features of high temperature superconducting wind turbine generators (HTSWTGs) are discussed with special attention given to their merits and drawbacks, as well as to some practical considerations involved in the conceptual design. It is hoped that this chapter provides quick reference guidelines for developing HTSWTGs.
Finite-element analysis high temperature superconductors machine design wind turbine generator
Wenping Cao
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Newcastle University United Kingdom
国际会议
北京
英文
40-43
2010-10-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）