Basic control concept for a speed-variable wind energy converter in a low-power grid

Author

Sourkounis, -Ing Constantinos

Author_Institution

Res. Group for Power Syst. Technol. & Power Mechatron., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

3-6 July 2012

Firstpage

1296

Lastpage

1302

Abstract

In order to achieve an high penetration in the electrical grid and an economical utilization of wind energy earlier it is advisable to reduce the pollution on the one hand and to increase the efficiency of wind energy converters on the other. Therefore a new generator system control was design and tested on a 22 kW wind energy converter test bed. The basic control concept is characterised by sufficiently high control dynamics. Besides sufficiently high control reserves for an operation within a broad speed range and high control dynamics, a stable operation over the whole speed range has been obtained.

Keywords

pollution control; power convertors; power generation control; power generation economics; power system dynamic stability; wind power plants; electrical grid; generator system control; high-control dynamics; low-power grid; operation stability; pollution reduction; power 22 kW; speed-variable wind energy converter; wind energy converter test bed; wind energy economical utilization; Control systems; Equations; Inverters; Layout; Mathematical model; Transfer functions; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control & Automation (MED), 2012 20th Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2530-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2529-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2012.6265818

Filename

6265818