scholarly journals Power Quality Issues and Mitigation for Electric Grids with Wind Power Penetration

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 8852
Author(s):  
Sulaiman A. Almohaimeed ◽  
Mamdouh Abdel-Akher
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Power Quality ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Test System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Voltage Variation ◽  
Electric Grids ◽  
Quality Issues

Large penetration of wind energy systems into electric-grids results in many power quality problems. This paper presents a classification of power quality issues, namely harmonics and short-duration voltage variation observed due to the integration of wind power. Additionally, different techniques and technologies to mitigate the effect of such issues are discussed. The paper highlights the current trends and future scopes in the improvement of the interconnection of wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) into the grid. As the voltage variation is the most severe power quality issue, case studies have been presented to investigate this problem using steady-state time-series simulations. The standard IEEE test system namely IEEE 123-node test feeder and IEEE 30-node grid are solved under different operating conditions with wind power penetration. Typical daily load profiles of a substation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and an intermittent wind power generation profile are used in all case studies. Mitigation of voltage variations due to wind intermittency is achieved using reactive power compensation of the interface inverter. The results show the effectiveness of these approaches to avoid voltage variation and excessive tap setting movements of regulators and keep the voltage within the desired operating conditions.

Power Quality Issues and Solutions – Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Mikkili ◽  
Anup Kumar Panda
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Quality Issues

Abstract Electrical power quality has been an important and growing problem because of the proliferation of nonlinear loads such as power electronic converters in typical power distribution systems in recent years. Particularly, voltage harmonics and power distribution equipment problems result from current harmonics produced by nonlinear loads. The Electronic equipment like, computers, battery chargers, electronic ballasts, variable frequency drives, and switch mode power supplies, generate perilous harmonics and cause enormous economic loss every year. Problems caused by power quality have great adverse economic impact on the utilities and customers. Due to that both power suppliers and power consumers are concerned about the power quality problems and compensation techniques. Power quality has become more and more serious with each passing day. As a result active power filter gains much more attention due to excellent harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three-phase without neutral), and four-wire (three-phase with neutral) ac power networks with nonlinear loads. However, this is still a technology under development, and many new contributions and new control topologies have been reported in the last few years. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of APF technology to the researchers and application engineers dealing with power quality issues.

scholarly journals Design and Simulation of a Unified Power Quality Conditioner by Fuzzy Logic for Egyptian Power Grid Connected to Zafarana Egypt Wind System

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Montaser Abd El Sattar ◽  
Adel A. Elbaset ◽  
Ali H. KasemAlaboudy ◽  
Wessam Arafa Hafez
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Power Quality ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Grid ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Wind System ◽  
Unified Power Quality Conditioner ◽  
Wind Energy System ◽  
Power Quality Conditioner

Wind energy system is lately receiving a lot of attention, because they are cost inexpensive, environmental safe and clean renewable energy source, as compared with nuclear and fossil fuel power generation. The operational characteristics of wind electric turbines has considerable dissatisfaction and stress on the quality of electric power system. Harmonics, variations of voltage and reactive power are most of power quality issues for grid connected with wind turbine. This paper introduces a design and simulation of unified power quality conditioner using a fuzzy controller to improve the power quality for Egyptian power grid connected to Zafarana Egypt wind system. The proposed performance of the unified power quality conditioner system is verified by simulating the model using MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. The simulation results showed that the proposed unified power quality conditioner provide efficient cancellation of both load current  harmonics  and supply voltage sag in addition to compensation of reactive power, and thus making the electrical grid connected wind energy system more efficient by improving the quality of power.

scholarly journals Enhancing the LVRT Capability and Mitigation of Power Quality Issues Using UPQC of a Grid Connected Wind Conversion System

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 643
Author(s):  
C.S Boopathi ◽  
Kuppusamy Selvakumar ◽  
Avisek Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Active Filter ◽  
Shunt Active Filter ◽  
Unified Power Quality Conditioner ◽  
Conversion System ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Power Quality Conditioner ◽  
Doubly Fed

In this paper unified power quality conditioner has been used to enhance low voltage ride through capability of grid connected wind conversion system taking Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). Unified Power quality conditioner (UPQC) device is a combination of series active filter and shunt active filter. This custom power device is mainly used to mitigate power quality issues which is an essential factor today because of wide application of power electronics devices. UPQC is capable to deal with voltage and current imperfection simultaneously. It is installed in the system mainly to improve the power quality i.e. Voltage sag/swell, Harmonics, reactive power compensation etc. at point of common coupling. System is modeled in MATLAB/SIMULINK and results shows utilization of UPQC for the enhancement of LVRT of a DFIG wind system according to Grid code. when fault occurs in the system, it will create voltage dip and series compensator of UPQC injects during this time to prevent disconnection from grid and stay connected to contribute during fault. UPQC is also used for fast restoration of system steady state, power factor improvement, prevent rotor over current.

Power Quality Issues on Wind Power Installations in Denmark

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poul Sorensen ◽  
Nicolaos Antonio Cutululis ◽  
Torsten Lund ◽  
Anca D. Hansen ◽  
Troels Sorensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Power ◽  
Power Quality ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Power Installations

scholarly journals Indirect Vector-Controlled Brushless Doubly-Fed Twin-Stator Induction Generator for Wind Energy Conversion Application

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4174
Author(s):  
Mona I. Abdelkader ◽  
Ahmed K. Abdelsalam ◽  
Ahmed A. Hossameldin
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Velocity Variation ◽  
Induction Generator ◽  
Synchronous Generators ◽  
Wind Energy Conversion ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Doubly Fed

Wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) seem certain to play a major part in the world’s energy future due to their known high power capacity. The maximum power tracking is unavoidable due to the wind velocity variation and the non-linear relation with the turbine mechanical power. Commercial wind turbines are commonly coupled to either doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs), wound rotor synchronous generators (WRSG) or permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs). The DFIG-based WECS has several advantages over others. One of which is the power converter in such systems only deals with rotor power, hence the converter rating can run at reduced power rating. However, DFIG has the famous disadvantage of the presence of slip rings which leads to increased maintenance costs and outage times. Hence, brushless doublyfed induction machines (BDFIMs) can be considered as a viable alternative at the penalty of complicated controller requirement and limited decoupling control capability due to the machine’s non-linearity. In this paper, an enhanced performance indirect vector controller is proposed for WECS based on brushless doubly-fed twin-stator induction generator (BDFTSIG). The presented controller offers (i) simplified implementation, (ii) decoupled active-reactive power control, and (iii) a wide range of operation. The proposed controller performance is investigated under various loading conditions showing enhanced transient and minimal steady-state oscillations in addition to complete active/reactive power decoupling. The rigorous simulation and experimental results verify the claimed controller effectiveness under all possible operating conditions for sub- and super-synchronous speed range.

A Multi-Objective Fuzzy-Based Procedure for Reactive Power-Based Preventive Emergency Strategy

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragab A. El Sehiemy ◽  
Adel A. Abou El Ela ◽  
Abdelallah Shaheen
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Test System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Fuzzy Linear Programming ◽  
Objective Functions ◽  
Transmission Losses ◽  
The West ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Control Actions

This paper proposes a multi-objective fuzzy linear programming (MFLP) procedure for maximizing the effects of preventive reactive power control actions to overcome any emergency condition when they occurred. The proposed procedure is very significant and seeks to eliminate violation constraints and give an optimal reactive power reserve for multi-operating conditions. The proposed multi-objective functions are: minimizing the real transmission losses, maximizing the reactive power reserve at certain generator and maximizing the reactive power reserve at all generation systems and/or switchable devices. The proposed MFLP is applied to 5-bus test system and the West Delta region system as a part of the Egyptian Unified network. The numerical results show that the proposed MFLP technique achieves a minimum real power loss with maximal reactive reserve for power systems for different operating conditions.

scholarly journals Some Issues Related to Power Generation Using Wind Energy Conversion Systems: An Overview

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. R. C. Bansal ◽  
Dr. Ahmed F Zobaa ◽  
Dr. R. K. Saket
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Wind Power Generation ◽  
Wind Energy Conversion ◽  
Wind Energy Conversion Systems ◽  
Energy Conversion Systems

Design and successful operation of wind energy conversion systems (WECs) is a very complex task and requires the skills of many interdisciplinary skills, e.g., civil, mechanical, electrical and electronics, geography, aerospace, environmental etc. Performance of WECs depends upon subsystems like wind turbine (aerodynamic), gears (mechanical), generator (electrical); whereas the availability of wind resources are governed by the climatic conditions of the region concerned for which wind survey is extremely important to exploit wind energy. This paper presents a number of issues related to the power generation from WECs e.g. factors affecting wind power, their classification, choice of generators, main design considerations in wind turbine design, problems related with grid connections, wind-diesel autonomous hybrid power systems, reactive power control of wind system, environmental aspects of power generation, economics of wind power generation, and latest trend of wind power generation from off shore sites.

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