MS#07.1 Wind Turbine Drive Trains: Trends and Technologies

A. EBRAHIMI¹, T. JERSCH²
¹ Institute for Electrical Drives, Power Electronics and Devices |² Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems - IWES

Electrical conversion, energy systems and grid integration

Together with the rapid development of wind power, applications and growth in the installation capacity of wind turbines worldwide, research and development are being done to develop various turbine concepts to make wind energy conversion systems even more cost-effective. Therefore, this symposium will focus mainly on the new wind generator technologies, including design, simulation and tests and the generator-converter interactions.
Besides introducing the new generator concepts, the participants are also welcome to give a review of their current and future research topics.
The industrial applications including technical reviews of systems functionalities will also be included in this session. The researches and engineers from industry and academia are welcome to submit their abstracts to the Mini-Symposium on wind drive trains.

The topics of the Mini-Symposiums are (but not limited to):

• New generator technologies
• Super conducting generators
• Generator vibrations
• Generator design, calculation and simulation
• Bearing currents
• Generator-converter interactions
• Generator-converter topologies
• Generator-Gearbox interactions.