scholarly journals Design of Capacitive Bridge Fault Current Limiter for Low-Voltage Ride-Through Capacity Enrichment of Doubly Fed Induction Generator-Based Wind Farm

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6656
Author(s):  
A. Padmaja ◽  
Allusivala Shanmukh ◽  
Siva Subrahmanyam Mendu ◽  
Ramesh Devarapalli ◽  
Javier Serrano González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Voltage Drop ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Fault Current ◽  
Fault Current Limiter ◽  
Low Voltage Ride Through ◽  
Current Limiter ◽  
Doubly Fed

The increase in penetration of wind farms operating with doubly fed induction generators (DFIG) results in stability issues such as voltage dips and high short circuit currents in the case of faults. To overcome these issues, and to achieve reliable and sustainable power from an uncertain wind source, fault current limiters (FCL) are incorporated. This work focuses on limiting the short circuit current level and fulfilling the reactive power compensation of a DFIG wind farm using a capacitive bridge fault current limiter (CBFCL). To deliver sustainable wind power to the grid, a fuzzy-based CBFCL is designed for generating optimal reactive power to suppress the instantaneous voltage drop during the fault and in the recovery state. The performance of the proposed fuzzy-based CBFCL is presented under a fault condition to account for real-time conditions. The results show that the proposed fuzzy-based CBFCL offers a more effective solution for overcoming the low voltage ride through (LVRT) problem than a traditional controller.

scholarly journals Control of a Variable-Impedance Fault Current Limiter to Assist Low-Voltage Ride-Through of Doubly Fed Induction Generators

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 2364
Author(s):  
Jiejie Huang ◽  
Shun Sang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Xiaocen Xue ◽  
Tingting Sun
Keyword(s):  
Low Voltage ◽  
Fault Current ◽  
Fault Current Limiter ◽  
Low Voltage Ride Through ◽  
Induction Generators ◽  
Doubly Fed Induction Generators ◽  
Transient Electromagnetic ◽  
Current Limiter ◽  
Doubly Fed ◽  
Control Methodology

A fault current limiter (FCL) may be applied to assist the low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). FCLs with fixed impedance, lack the flexibility to adjust their impedance to adapt to different LVRT scenarios. The direct switch-in and -out of the fixed-impedance FCL yields transient electromagnetic oscillations in the DFIG, which need to be addressed. In this paper, a variable-impedance FCL is implemented at the stator side of the DFIG to assist its LVRT, and a novel methodology is proposed to control the impedance of the FCL, with which the stator current oscillation is effectively constrained and the smooth switch-out of the FCL is realized to avoid continued active power consumption of the FCL and to restore the DFIG to its pre-fault working condition. Analysis of the LVRT transient is carried out, which lays the foundation for the control methodology to determine the impedance of the FCL based on calculation of the optimization goal. The feasibility and effectiveness of the control to the variable-impedance FCL are verified by the numerical analysis results, which compare the LVRT simulation results with the application of the fixed-impedance and the variable-impedance FCLs.

The Transient Characteristics Analysis of Doubly-Fed Induction Generator during the Asymmetric Voltage Sag

2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 3509-3514
Author(s):  
Jian Hua Zhang ◽  
Hao Ran Shen ◽  
Lei Ding ◽  
Chun Lei Dai
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Voltage Drop ◽  
Voltage Sag ◽  
Grid Voltage ◽  
Low Voltage Ride Through ◽  
Double Frequency ◽  
Characteristics Analysis ◽  
Doubly Fed

In order to analyze the control strategy of the low voltage ride through (LVRT) of DFIG during the asymmetric voltage sag, it is necessary to analyze the transient performance of a DFIG during the asymmetric voltage sag. In this paper, analyzed the influence of the asymmetric grid voltage to DFIG and the analysis method of the asymmetric voltage sag, and on the basis of positive and negative sequence mathematical model, analyzed the composition of stator output active and reactive power under the condition of asymmetric grid voltage. And built a DFIG asymmetric voltage drop simulation model of 1.5MW in MATLAB/Simulink, the simulation results shows that the stator voltage, current, active power and reactive power all present a double frequency ripple during the asymmetric voltage sag, consistent with theoretical analysis. It can provide theoretical basis for double-fed motor control strategy of asymmetric LVRT.

Study of Reactive Power Compensation for Improvement of Low-Voltage-Ride-Through Capability of Wind Farm

2013 ◽  
Vol 724-725 ◽  
pp. 619-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia Yu Hsu ◽  
Ta Hsiu Tseng ◽  
Pei Hwa Huang
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Static Synchronous Compensator ◽  
Low Voltage Ride Through ◽  
Induction Generators ◽  
Turbine Generators ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Doubly Fed

The main purpose of this paper is to study the enhancement of the Low-Voltage-Ride-Through (LVRT) capability of the wind farm with the installment of the Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) and the Static Var Compensator (SVC). With more penetration of wind energy from on-shore and off-shore wind farms, utilities have been starting to set up the regulation requiring the wind turbine generators to remain connected to the grid when a fault takes place in the system which is referred to as Low-Voltage-Ride-Through (LVRT). A wind farm composed with doubly fed induction generators is used as the study system. Both the STATCOM and the SVC are utilized as the devices for enhancing the LVRT capability of the wind farm. The results are demonstrated for comparing the performance of the two devices in the improvement of voltage dynamic characteristics of the study system.

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