Comparison study between two Dynamic Breaking resistor techniques in protecting the doubly fed induction generator

Author

El-helw, H. ; Khaled, Ahmed

Author_Institution

Electr. & Control Dept., Arab Acad. for Sci. & Technol. & Maritime Transp., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 May 2013

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

Variable speed wind turbines are more popular than fixed speed one, due to its ability to capture more energy from the wind. One of the most common generators, which is used in variable speed wind turbines, is the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). In this paper the most common protection techniques of the DFIG are overviewed. A comparative study between the Dynamic Breaking Resistance (DBR) connected to the DFIG stator protection topology with the Dynamic Breaking Resistance connected to the DFIG rotor protection topology is conducted. This study is obtained using the Matlab/Simulink. The simulation results show that the DBR connecting to the stator windings technique offers a better performance of the DFIG during fault or voltage dips.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; electric potential; power generation protection; resistors; rotors; stators; variable speed drives; wind turbines; DBR; DFIG rotor protection topology; DFIG stator protection topology; doubly fed induction generator; dynamic breaking resistor technique; stator windings technique; variable speed wind turbines; voltage dips; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Rotors; Stator windings; Topology; Voltage fluctuations; Wind turbines; Crowbar; DFIG; Dynamic braking resistance; wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wroclaw

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3060-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2013.6549535

Filename

6549535