Improved design and control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine generators for wind power applications

未来几年，减少温室气体排放的重要性日益增加，这将推动风能等可再生能源的使用增加。目前，风能的成本远远高于化石燃料能源。造成这种情况的部分原因是风力涡轮机的初始成本和持续维护。提出的研究考虑了一种基于无刷双馈电机（BDFRM）的新型发电机，该发电机有可能降低风力发电机/逆变器硬件的初始成本，并降低持续维护成本。如果研究能够证明BDFRM能够实现其潜力，那么这将有助于风能的进一步利用。

The growing importance of the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the coming years is driving the increased usage of renewable energy sources such as wind power. Currently the cost of wind energy is considerably higher than fossil fuel energy sources. Part of the reason for this is the initial cost and ongoing maintenance of the wind turbines. The proposed research considers a new kind of generator based on the Brushless Doubly Fed Machine (BDFRM) that has the potential to lower the initial cost of the generator/inverter hardware of the wind turbine, and also decrease the ongoing maintenance costs. If the research is able to show that the BDFRM is able to realise its potential, then this will aid the further use of wind energy.