Autonomous wind energy conversion system employing synchronous generator

Author

Sharma, Shantanu ; Singh, Bawa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Shri G. S. Inst. of Technol. & Sci. Indore, Indore, India

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper deals with an autonomous wind energy conversion system (AWECS) employing a synchronous generator (SG). The voltage and frequency controller (VFC) consists of a voltage source converter (VSC) supported with a battery energy storage system (BESS) at its DC bus. A low pass filter based control algorithm is used to provide switching signals for VFC to achieve frequency control, load leveling, load balancing, a unity power factor operation and an active filtering. Moreover, an automatic voltage regulator (AVR) is used to provide the function of stator voltage control. Performance of VFC is demonstrated under wide varying wind speeds and consumer loads.

Keywords

active filters; energy storage; frequency control; low-pass filters; power factor; power filters; power generation control; switching convertors; synchronous generators; voltage control; voltage regulators; wind power plants; AVR; BESS; DC bus; SG; VFC; VSC; WECS; active filtering; automatic voltage regulator; autonomous wind energy conversion system; battery energy storage system; consumer load; load balancing; load leveling; low pass filter; stator voltage control; switching signal; synchronous generator; unity power factor operation; voltage and frequency controller; voltage source converter; wind speed; Automatic frequency control; Estimation; Frequency conversion; Frequency synchronization; Integrated circuits; Wind turbines; Battery Energy Storage; Synchronous Generator; Voltage Source Converter; Wind Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics (IICPE), 2012 IEEE 5th India International Conference on

Conference_Location

Delhi

ISSN

2160-3162

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0931-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IICPE.2012.6450450

Filename

6450450