Realization and control of a wind turbine connected to the grid by using PMSG

Abstract

This paper studies the control of a variable-speed wind turbine using the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) driven by a wind turbine emulator. The wind turbine is realized by imposing the wind profile on emulator to behave as the real wind turbine when it receives the same wind profile. This wind turbine is connected to the grid by means of a two back-to-back voltage-fed pulse width-modulation (PWM) converters to interface the generator and the grid. This paper has three main objectives, the first is realization of the wind turbine emulator, the second is extracting and exploiting the maximum power from the wind, the third is feeding the grid by high-power and good electrical energy quality; to achieve that, we applied the strategies of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) using optimal torque control which allows the PMSG to operate at an optimal speed. The inverter is used for delivering power to the grid, controlled in a way to deliver only the active power into the grid, thus we have unit power factor. DC-link voltage is also controlled by the inverter. This paper shows the dynamic performances of the complete system by its simulation using Matlab Simulink. Experimental results has verified and validated the wind turbine emulator and the efficiency of MPPT control method using a variable wind profile.