A Simple Feed Forward Controller for Stand-Alone Wind-Driven Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

Author

Vijayakumar, K. ; Karthigaivel, R. ; Kumaresan, N. ; Arjun, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Tiruchirappalli, India

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A simple feed forward controller for wind-driven Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) has been proposed using low cost opamps and a MOSFET inverter. The controller automatically adjusts the pulse widths of the inverter to maintain a constant ac voltage of desired frequency despite the variations in the voltage and frequency of PMSG output. A prototype of the system has been built by fabricating the controller, an uncontrolled diode bridge and a single-phase MOSFET inverter. The controller has been tested on a 4-pole, three-phase, 110 V, 5 kW, 1500 rpm PMSG driven by a wind turbine in dynamic conditions. The results of the experimental study are furnished in the paper.

Keywords

MOSFET; controllers; feedforward; permanent magnet generators; synchronous generators; wind turbines; PMSG; constant AC voltage; feed forward controller; power 5 kW; single-phase MOSFET inverter; uncontrolled diode bridge; voltage 110 V; wind turbine; wind-driven permanent magnet synchronous generator; Automatic control; Automatic generation control; Automatic voltage control; Costs; Feeds; Frequency; MOSFET circuits; Permanent magnets; Pulse width modulation inverters; Synchronous generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference (INDICON), 2009 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Gujarat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4858-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4859-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2009.5409430

Filename

5409430