Evaluation of wind turbine characteristics built-in model in Matlab Simulink

Abstract

Due to growing concerns over climate change, more and more countries are looking to renewable energy sources to generate electricity. Therefore, wind turbines are increasing in popularity. The amount of mechanical power that can be extracted from the wind by a turbine rotor depends on the characteristics of wind turbine. Furthermore, the aim of the characteristics of any wind turbine is to provide an expectation of how to design the generator's control system in order to track these characteristics and extract maximum power from the wind. The characteristics of wind turbines is the focus of this paper. A new wind turbine characteristics methodology is proposed and summarized in a new flowchart. A Matlab program was written to evaluate the performance coefficient of wind turbine. Unlike the conventional simulations which use the wind turbine block in the MATLAB /SIMULINK library, a drive train model and aerodynamic model have been supplemented to get the characteristics of wind turbines.