Implementation and analysis of mono inverter-battery configuration for wind driven doubly fed induction generator

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the controller implementation and analysis of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) for powering isolated loads in rural electrification. A simple speed sensorless algorithm-assisted controller for isolated power supply of DFIG has been proposed using a digital controller and voltage source converter at the rotor terminals of the generator. The controller can automatically correct the voltage and frequency of the rotor side inverter pulse to obtain a desired voltage and frequency at stator side despite the variations in the wind speed and load. A hardware prototype of the system has been built and tested on a prototype machine, which is driven by an emulated wind turbine under sub-synchronous and super-synchronous speed operations. The detailed results of both simulated and hardware waveforms are provided in the paper to demonstrate the working of the proposed topology and embedded control scheme. Further, the performance characteristics of DFIG are modeled and verified experimentally. A good agreement exists between theoretical and experimental results.