The state of the art of wind energy conversion systems and technologies: A review

M Cheng, Y Zhu - Energy conversion and management, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper gives a comprehensive review of the state of the art of wind energy conversion
systems (WECS) and technologies, with an emphasis on wind power generator and control …

Challenges and opportunities of electric machines for renewable energy

KT Chau, W Li, CHT Lee - Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 2012 - jpier.org
This paper gives an overview of various electric machines for application to renewable
energy harvesting, and reveals the corresponding challenges and research opportunities …

An efficient wind–photovoltaic hybrid generation system using doubly excited permanent-magnet brushless machine

C Liu, KT Chau, X Zhang - IEEE transactions on industrial …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With ever-increasing concerns on energy issues, the development of renewable energy
sources is becoming more and more attractive. This paper first reviews both the wind power …

A doubly salient starter/generator with two-section twisted-rotor structure for potential future aerospace application

Z Chen, H Wang, Y Yan - IEEE Transactions on industrial …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The starter/generator is one key technology for the more electric/all electric aircraft. The
wound-field doubly salient starter/generator supplies good prospect in the aircraft …

Switched flux permanent magnet machines—Innovation continues

ZQ Zhu - 2011 International Conference on Electrical Machines …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper overviews various switched flux permanent magnet machines and their design
and performance features, with particular emphasis on machine topologies with reduced …

Electromagnetic performance of novel variable flux reluctance machines with DC-field coil in stator

X Liu, ZQ Zhu - IEEE transactions on magnetics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, novel variable flux reluctance machines (VFRMs) with different rotor pole
numbers, which employ a doubly salient structure together with field windings identically …

Design optimization and comparative study of novel dual-PM excited machines

Q Wang, S Niu, L Yang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper systematically studies a new kind of PM machines with both stator and rotor PM
excitations, namely, dual-PM excited machines. The key is to rely on the PM-iron structure in …

Principles of stator DC winding excited vernier reluctance machines

S Jia, R Qu, J Li, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Energy …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stator dc winding excited Vernier reluctance machines (DC-VRMs) are one novel kind of
Vernier reluctance machines, and have doubly salient structure and additional dc field …

Low cost flux-switching brushless AC machines

JT Chen, ZQ Zhu, S Iwasaki… - 2010 IEEE vehicle power …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low cost 3-phase DC winding excited flux-switching (FS) brushless AC machine is
developed from the FS permanent magnet (FSPM) machine. The influence of stator and …

Comparison of flux regulation ability of the hybrid excitation doubly salient machines

Z Chen, B Wang, Z Chen, Y Yan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hybrid excitation doubly salient machine (DSM)(HEDSM) can adjust the air gap flux with
the limited field exciting ampere-turns. There are a few studied structures with different air …