Maximum Power Point Tracking and grid feeding of permanent magnet synchronous generator based wind energy conversion system using modified hill climb searching algorithm

Author

Linus, Rajin M. ; Damodharan, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai, India

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes the performance of permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) based wind energy conversion system (WECS) using modified hill climb searching (HCS) Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm. The proposed system consists of back to back sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) converters. The generator side converter is used to track the maximum wind power using modified HCS algorithm. The grid side inverter is to feed the generated wind power to an isolated grid by regulating dc-link voltage and unity power factor (UPF) in grid. This model is developed and simulated in MATLAB / SIMULINK. The performance of the proposed control approach is validated through simulation results.

Keywords

PWM power convertors; invertors; maximum power point trackers; permanent magnet generators; power factor; power generation control; power grids; synchronous generators; voltage control; wind power plants; HCS; MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation; MPPT; PMSG; SPWM converters; WECS; dc link voltage; generator side converter; grid feeding; grid side inverter; maximum power point tracking; modified hill climb searching algorithm; permanent magnet synchronous generator; sinusoidal pulse width modulation; unity power factor; voltage regulation; wind energy conversion system; Control systems; Generators; Inverters; Reactive power; Wind power generation; Wind speed; Wind turbines; HCS; Modified HCS; PMSG; Wind energy conversion system (WECS); maximum power point tracking (MPPT);

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.2012.6450491

Filename

6450491