a research platform for a smart-blade wind generation system

Author

Davey, J. ; Madawala, Udaya K. ; Sharma, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Auckland Univ., Auckland

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1918

Lastpage

1923

Abstract

A research platform, which is designed for a novel smart-blade wind turbine system, is presented. The proposed platform, which allows for the integration of different renewable sources, consists of a smart-blade wind turbine, a permanent magnet (PM) generator, a rectifier, a hybrid super-capacitor/battery energy buffer, and a boost and bi-directional converter. The PM generator, designed for the power profile of the smart-blade turbine, is driven by an induction motor drive to emulate the wind conditions. The research platform is implemented in a Simulink/MATLAB environment with a dSPACE interface for real time control. It has a controller for peak power point tracking (PPPT) and a user interface for real time metering, and is expected to facilitate rapid prototyping and energy related research.

Keywords

blades; induction motor drives; permanent magnet generators; power engineering computing; power generation control; real-time systems; rectifying circuits; supercapacitors; user interfaces; wind power plants; wind turbines; Simulink/MATLAB; battery energy buffer; boost bi-directional converter; dSPACE interface; hybrid super-capacitor; induction motor drive; peak power point tracking controller; permanent magnet generator; rapid prototyping; real time metering; rectifier; renewable sources; smart-blade wind generation system; user interface; wind turbine; Batteries; Bidirectional control; Hybrid power systems; Induction generators; Induction motor drives; Permanent magnets; Power generation; Rectifiers; Wind energy generation; Wind turbines; PM generator; Wind turbine; bi-directional converter; peak power point tracking; research platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008. 13th

Conference_Location

Poznan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1741-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1742-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPEPEMC.2008.4635545

Filename

4635545