A laboratory structure for dynamic and power quality studies of wind farms

The growing importance of wind farm resources has motivated the development of computational and experimental approaches to cope with the needs for professional formation and research. Although the recognition that a great computational effort has already being made, it has been found important to idealize and set up a physical structure that topologically and functionally is enable to represent wind conversion complexes as far as its power structure and control strategy are concerned. In light of these facts, this paper presents an experimental arrangement consisting of reduced scale equipment to simulate the operation of wind power conversion system. By utilizing the overall laboratory organization is has been found feasible to represent typical electrical dynamic and power quality operating performance. To highlight the potentiality of the assembled complex at representing field occurrences an experiment has been carried out and the corresponding results are given and discussed.