VOLTAGE AND CURRENT CONTROL STRATEGY FOR GRID CONNECTED VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINE INDUCTION GENERATORS EMPLOYING

BACK TO BACK PWM VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS

M. Arjun, Yogesh Naik, Gaurav Shanbhag and Rajni Naik, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B. V. B. College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, Karnataka, India. Email: arjunmudlapur@gmail.com This paper presents voltage current control strategy of grid connected wind turbine induction generators using back to back PWM voltage source converters. Induction generators are used because of its low cost, robust construction and capability of feeding active power to grid without getting reactive power from separate source. The block diagram of the system is as shown in Fig. 1. The mechanical energy required to drive the generator is obtained from the variable speed wind turbine. The three phase induction machine gets its excitation from a three phase sine pulse width modulated converter connected to a dc link capacitor. The dc link capacitor is charged with an initial voltage of 12 V. The DC link capacitor feeds the current controlled voltage source inverter feeding a three phase gird. Thus the sine PWM converter and the CCVSI form a back to back connection via the dc link.

Fig. 1. Schematic block diagram of the system Control strategy has been developed for maintaining the DC link voltage constant and feed the power to grid at any desired power factor. The system is able to maintain a constant dc link voltage even though there is a frequent variation in the wind speed. This system responds well for various wind velocities, feeding the power to the grid at unity, lagging as well as at leading power factors. The induction machine is modeled in stationary reference frame. Sine PWM VSI and CCVSI are also modeled along with the control loop. The simulation study is done in MATLAB/SIMULINK for various operating conditions. Simulation results are in very good agreement with the theoretical analysis.