Abstract
This paper presents a new operational strategy for a large-scale wind farm (WF) which is composed of both fixed speed wind turbines with squirrel cage induction generators (FSWT-SCIGs) and variable speed wind turbines with permanent magnet synchronous generators (VSWT-PMSGs). FSWT-SCIGs suffer greatly from meeting the requirements of fault ride through (FRT), because they are largely dependent on reactive power. Integration of flexible ac transmission system (FACTS) devices is a solution to overcome that problem, though it definitely increases the overall cost. Therefore, in this paper, a new method is proposed to stabilize FSWT-SCIGs by using VSWT-PMSGs in a WF. This is achieved by injecting the reactive power to the grid during fault condition by controlling the grid side converter (GSC) of PMSG. The conventional proportional-integral (PI)-based cascaded controller is usually used for GSC which can inject small amount of reactive power during fault period. Thus, it cannot stabilize larger rating of SCIG. In this paper, a suitable fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is proposed in the cascaded controller of GSC of PMSG in order to increase reactive power injection and thus improve the FRT capability of WF during voltage dip situation due to severe network fault. To evaluate the proposed controller performance, simulation analyses are performed on a modified IEEE nine-bus system. Simulation results clearly show that the proposed method can be a cost-effective solution which can effectively stabilize the larger rating of SCIG compared to conventional PI based control strategy.
Highlights
Global warming is one of the serious problems that the world faces recently due to the use of fossil fuel-based power plants to generate electricity [1]
This paper presents a new operational strategy for a large-scale wind farm (WF) which is composed of both fixed speed wind turbines with squirrel cage induction generators (FSWT-SCIGs) and variable speed wind turbines with permanent magnet synchronous generators (VSWT-PMSGs)
The fault is considered to happen at 0.1 s, the duration of fault is 0.1 s (5 cycles), the circuit breakers (CBs) on the faulty line are opened at 0.2 s in order to isolate the faulty line from the entire power system and reclosed at 1.0 s
Summary
Global warming is one of the serious problems that the world faces recently due to the use of fossil fuel-based power plants to generate electricity [1]. In order to improve the FRT capability during network fault situation, some supplementary devices, for example, an energy capacitor system (ECS) [5], superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) [6], and a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) [7] are installed in WFs with FSWT-SCIGs. the overall system cost increases. The accomplishment of the conventional PI controller is insufficient during transient period and it cannot provide effective amount of reactive power [12]. Using an FLC in the inner loop of GSC controller to provide efficient amount of reactive power to stabilize SCIG-based WF during fault periods is convenient. The main contribution of this paper is the design of a novel FLC-based GSC controller of PMSG to improve the FRT capability and stabilize the gird-connected SCIG-based WF. It is found that the proposed FLC-based GSC controller is very effective to improve the FRT capability of SCIG-based WF.
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