Modelling and control of a pitch controlled wind turbine experiment workstation

Author

Merabet, Adel ; Rajasekaran, Vigneshwaran ; Kerr, John

Author_Institution

Div. of Eng., St. Mary´´s Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

4316

Lastpage

4320

Abstract

A pitch controlled wind turbine experiment workstation is presented in this paper. This laboratory size system can be used for research purpose, where various control strategies can be achieved through the pitch angle actuator/control for variable load. Mathematical models of the major components of the wind turbine and the configuration of the load, based on LED, are presented. Pitch angle control strategies are discussed and experimental results for controlling power, rotor speed and voltage are provided to show the capabilities of the wind turbine.

Keywords

angular velocity control; electric actuators; light emitting diodes; load regulation; mathematical analysis; power control; power generation control; voltage control; wind power plants; wind turbines; workstations; LED; laboratory size system; mathematical model; pitch angle actuator-control strategy; pitch controlled wind turbine experiment workstation; power control; rotor speed control; variable load control; voltage control; Blades; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Servomotors; Wind turbines; DC generator; electronic load; pitch angle actuator; pitch angle control; wind turbine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2419-9

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2012.6389195

Filename

6389195