Low voltage ride-through capabilities of wind plant combining different turbine technologies

Author

Teninge, Alexandre ; Roye, Daniel ; Bacha, Seddik ; Duval, Jérôme

Author_Institution

CNRS, IDEA, St. Martin d´´Heres, France

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

In this paper, the low voltage ride-through (LVRT) capabilities of an hybrid wind plant is studied. The hybrid wind plant considered combines fixed speed wind turbines (FSWTs) based on classical induction generator and full power converter variable speed wind turbines (VSWTs) with permanent magnet generator. However, it must be able to respect grid code requirements. A specific control of the variable speed wind turbine power converters is proposed and described in this paper to support FSWTs during voltage dips: the gride side converter is used as a STATCOM during voltage drop to provide the maximum of reactive power. Simulation results show the ability of the wind plant to ride-through a voltage dip with this control.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; permanent magnet generators; power convertors; power system control; static VAr compensators; velocity control; wind power plants; wind turbines; STATCOM; fixed speed wind turbines; hybrid wind plant; induction generator; low voltage ride-through; permanent magnet generator; reactive power; variable speed wind turbine power converters; Induction generators; Low voltage; Permanent magnets; Power generation; Power system stability; Voltage control; Voltage fluctuations; Wind energy generation; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Converter control; Induction motor; Synchronous motor; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2009. EPE '09. 13th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4432-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-13-9

Type

conf

Filename

5278847