David Campos-Gaona & Edgar Moreno-Goytia 
Offshore Wind Energy Generation [EPUB ebook] 
Control, Protection, and Integration to Electrical Systems

The offshore wind sector’s trend towards larger turbines,
bigger wind farm projects and greater distance to shore has a
critical impact on grid connection requirements for offshore wind
power plants. This important reference sets out the fundamentals
and latest innovations in electrical systems and control strategies
deployed in offshore electricity grids for wind power
integration.

Includes:

* All current and emerging technologies for offshore wind
integration and trends in energy storage systems, fault limiters,
superconducting cables and gas-insulated transformers

* Protection of offshore wind farms illustrating numerous system
integration and protection challenges through case studies

* Modelling of doubly-fed induction generators (DFIG) and
full-converter wind turbines structures together with an
explanation of the smart grid concept in the context of wind
farms

* Comprehensive material on power electronic equipment employed
in wind turbines with emphasis on enabling technologies (HVDC,
STATCOM) to facilitate the connection and compensation of
large-scale onshore and offshore wind farms

* Worked examples and case studies to help understand the dynamic
interaction between HVDC links and offshore wind generation

* Concise description of the voltage source converter topologies,
control and operation for offshore wind farm applications

* Companion website containing simulation models of the cases
discussed throughout

Equipping electrical engineers for the engineering challenges in
utility-scale offshore wind farms, this is an essential resource
for power system and connection code designers and pratitioners
dealing with integation of wind generation and the modelling and
control of wind turbines. It will also provide high-level support
to academic researchers and advanced students in power and
renewable energy as well as technical and research staff in
transmission and distribution system operators and in wind turbine
and electrical equipment manufacturers.

A propos de l’auteur

Edgar Lenymirko Moreno-Goytia, Reader,
Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, México Dr
Moreno-Goytia has researched power electronic-based equipment and
measurement systems development. He designed and built a Thyristor
Controlled Series Compensator and its control to operate in a
voltage fluctuations environment, and has been involved in
evaluating the impact of wind generation on the electrical grid. Dr
Moreno-Goytia has published over thirty papers in international
conferences and journals and is a member of IEEE and IET.

Olimpo Anaya-Lara, Senior Lecturer, Institute for
Energy and Environment , University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
UKDr Anaya-Lara has researched power electronic equipment,
control systems development, and stability and control of power
systems with increased wind energy penetration. He has developed
control strategies for Flexible Alternating Current Transmission
System devices (FACTS), and designed control schemes for marine
applications using advanced control techniques. He is a member of
the CIGRE Working Group B4-39, two International Energy Agency
Annexes, also the IEEE and IET. He has published over thirty-five
journals, ninety papers and co-authored three books.

David Campos-Gaona, Research Assistant, Instituto
Tecnológico de Morelia, México Mr Campos-Gaona has
investigated electronics-based solutions to electrical networks
such as digital power meters, DSP based protection algorithms, and
protection systems for wind turbines. He developed electronic
equipment such as residential digital power meter with a wireless
communication port. He was a research assistant with the SUPERGEN
Flex Net, and is member of the IEEE. He has published several
papers and conference proceedings.
Grain Philip Adam, Research Fellow, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKGrain received a Ph.D. degree in
power electronics from Strathclyde University in 2007. He is
currently with the Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, Strathclyde University, and his research interests are
multilevel inverters, electrical machines and power systems control
and stability.