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Verification of The Variable-Speed Wind Turbine Control System by Using the Simulator (시뮬레이터를 이용한 가변속 풍력발전기 제어시스템 검증)

  • Cha, Sam-Gon;Han, Sang-Yul;Cha, Jong-Hwan;Choi, Won-Ho;Lee, Seung-Kuh
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.370-373
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    • 2007
  • For the development of wind turbine, generally simulator is used. Simulator include wind turbine components. e.g blades, pitch and pitching method, rotor, yaw system, tower, drive train and so on. Few the more, it include a external circumstance. e.g wind speed, wind direction, air density. these basic parameters be used for the control of wind turbine by wind turbine controller in wind turbine simulator. The wind turbine controller can be designed in the wind turbine simulator. But a developer must make the real control system that will be made using PLC or PC or other processor. The developer must verify the function of control system. that is control algorithm , I/O function, communication, sequence and so on. This verification is possible if we substitute the real wind turbine control system for wind turbine controller in the simulator.

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An Investigation on Step Responses of Pitch PI Controller for a 2MW Wind Turbine Using Bladed S/W (Bladed S/W를 이용한 2MW급 풍력터빈에 대한 피치 PI 제어기의 계단응답 고찰)

  • Lim, Chae Wook
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2015
  • The pitch control system in wind turbines becomes more and more important as the wind turbines are larger in multi-MW size. PI controller has been applied in most pitch controllers and it has been known that gain-scheduling is essential for pitch control of wind turbines. A demo model of 2 MW wind turbine which represents the whole dynamics of wind turbine including dynamic behaviors of blade, tower and rotational shaft is given in the commercial Bladed S/W for real wind turbines. In this paper, some results on step responses of the pitch PI controller and effectiveness of gain-scheduled pitch PI controller are presented through the Bladed S/W for the 2 MW wind turbine.

Improvement in Active Power Control Methods for a Wind Farm Based on Modified Wind Turbine Control in Danish Grid Codes

  • Sim, JunBo;Song, Il-Keun;Lee, Yongseung;Lee, Hak-Ju;Choi, Yun-Hyuk
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.1438-1449
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    • 2018
  • The importance of power system stability has been emphasized with an increase of wind energy penetration in the power system. Accordingly, the guarantee on various control capabilities, including active and reactive power control of wind farms, was regarded as the most important aspect for the connection to the grid. To control the wind farm active power, the wind farm controller was introduced. The wind farm controller decides the power set points for each wind turbine generating unit and each wind turbine generating unit controls its power according to the set points from the wind farm controller. Therefore, co-relationship between wind farm controller and wind turbine controllers are significantly important. This paper proposes some control methods of wind farm active power control based on modified wind turbine control for power system stability and structures to connect wind turbine controllers to wind farm controller. Besides, this paper contributes to development of control algorithm considering not only electrical components but also mechanical components. The proposed contributions were verified by full simulation including power electronics and turbulent wind speed. The scenario refers to the active power control regulations of the Eltra and Elkraft system in Denmark.

Adaptive Control of Pitch Angle of Wind Turbine using a Novel Strategy for Management of Mechanical Energy Generated by Turbine in Different Wind Velocities

  • Hayatdavudi, Mahdi;Saeedimoghadam, Mojtaba;Nabavi, Seyed M.H.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.863-871
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    • 2013
  • Control of pitch angle of turbine blades is among the controlling methods in the wind turbines; this measure is taken for managing mechanical power generated by wind turbine in different wind velocities. Taking into account the high significance of the power generated by wind turbine and due to the fact that better performance of pitch angle is followed by better quality of turbine-generated power, it is therefore crucially important to optimize the performance of this controller. In the current paper, a PI controller is primarily used to control the pitch angle, and then another controller is designed and replaces PI controller through applying a new strategy i.e. alternating two ADALINE neural networks. According to simulation results, performance of controlling system improves in terms of response speed, response ripple, and ultimately, steady tracing error. The highly significant feature of the proposed intelligent controller is the considerable stability against variations of wind velocity and system parameters.

Design of Speed Controller for Stall Blade Wind Turbine Complying with the Speed Limit During Speed Overshoot (속도 오버슈트 발생 시 제한 속도를 초과하지 않는 실속형 블레이드 풍력터빈의 속도제어기 설계)

  • Kim, Ye-Chan;Song, Seung-Ho
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.438-445
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    • 2022
  • Blade efficiency decreases when the rotor speed is kept constant even though the wind speed is higher than the rated value. Therefore, a speed controller is used to regulate the rotor speed in the high-wind-speed region. In stall-blade wind turbine, the role of the speed controller is important because precise aerodynamic regulation is unavailable. In this study, an effective parameter design method of a PI speed controller is proposed to limit the speed overshoot of a type 4 wind turbine with stall blades even though wind gust occurs. The proposed method considers the efficiency characteristics of the stall blade and the mechanical inertia of the wind turbine rotor. It determines the bandwidth of the speed controller to comply with the speed limit during generator speed overshoot for the worst case of wind gust. The proposed method is verified through intensive simulations with a MATLAB/SIMULINK model and experimental results obtained using a 3 kW MG set of wind turbine simulator.

Simulation for Pitch Angle Control Strategies of a Grid-Connected Wind Turbine System on MATLAB/Simulink

  • Ro, Kyoung-Soo;Choi, Joon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents a pitch angle controller of a grid-connected wind turbine system for extracting maximum power from wind and implements a modeling and simulation of the wind turbine system on MATLAB/Simulink. It discusses the maximum power control algorithm for the wind turbine and presents, in a graphical form, the relationship of wind turbine output, rotor speed, and power coefficient with wind speed when the wind turbine is operated under the maximum power control algorithm. The objective of pitch angle control is to extract maximum power from wind and is achieved by regulating the blade pitch angle during above-rated wind speeds in order to bypass excessive energy in the wind. Case studies demonstrate that the pitch angle control is carried out to achieve maximum power extraction during above-rated wind speeds and effectiveness of the proposed controller would be satisfactory.

Study on Properties of Pitch Control for Wind Turbine (풍력터빈의 피치 PI 제어기 특성 고찰)

  • Lim, Chae-Wook
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2011
  • The aerodynamic power and torque of wind turbines are extremely nonlinear. Therefore, the overall dynamic behavior of a wind turbine exhibits nonlinear characteristics that are dependent on the magnitude of the wind speed. The nonlinear aerodynamic characteristics of the wind turbine also affect the characteristics of the control system of the wind turbine. Therefore, the analysis of the nonlinear aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine is essential in designing the wind-turbine controller. In this study, the nonlinear aerodynamic characteristics and the effects of these characteristics on the closed-loop pitch system with PI controller for an 1-mass model of the wind turbine are investigated above rated power.

Robust Fuzzy Controller for Mitigating the Fluctuation of Wind Power Generator in Wind Farm (풍력발전단지의 출력변동저감을 위한 강인 퍼지 제어기 설계)

  • Sung, Hwa Chang;Tak, Myung Hwan;Joo, Young Hoon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.34-39
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes the implementation of robust fuzzy controller for designing intelligent wind farm and mitiagating the fluctuation of wind power generator. The existing researches are limited to individual wind turbine with variable speed so that it is necessary to study the multi-agent wind turbine power system. The scopes of these studies include from the arrangements of each power turbine to the control algorithms for the wind farm. For solving these problems, we introduce the composition of intelligent wind farm and use the T-S (Takagi-Sugeno) fuzzy model which is suitable for designing fuzzy controller. The control object in wind farm enables the minimizing the fluctuation of wind power generator. Simulation results for wind fram which is modelled as mathematically are demonstrated to visualize the feasibility of the proposed method.

Wind Turbine Performance for Eigen Value Change of Closed-Loop System for PI-Controller (피치제어기 폐루프 시스템의 고유치 변화에 따른 풍력발전기의 성능)

  • Kim, Jong-Hwa;Moon, Seok-Jun;Shin, Yun-Ho;Won, Moon-Cheol
    • Journal of Wind Energy
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2013
  • Idealized PID-controlled rotor-speed error for blade pitch control of wind turbines responds as a second-order system with natural frequency and damping ratio for closed-loop system. RISO National Laboratory has recommended specific natural frequency(=0.6 rad/s) and damping ratio(=0.7) for 2 MW wind turbine. The baseline controller for 5 MW wind turbine of NREL(National Renewable Energy Laboratory) is designed based on the same values of RISO recommendation. This study investigates the effect of the natural frequency and damping ratio of the controller for NREL 5 MW wind turbine. It is confirmed that RISO recommendation shall be tuned for each wind turbine.

Pitch Control for Wind Turbine System using Advanced PID Controller (개선된 PID 제어기를 이용한 Wind Turbine의 피치 제어)

  • Jeon, Jong-Hyun;Kwon, O-Shin;Kim, Jin-Sung;Heo, Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.831-836
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    • 2011
  • The study described in this paper is aimed to maintain a constant output of wind turbine system via pitch control of wind turbine using Advanced PID(APID) controller. In order to improve dynamic response characteristic in terms of pitch angle and disturbance reject, the APID controller is developed. The structure of the APID is composed with derivative P controller and new type of integral control action. This new improved integral control has concept of error window and weight function concept. The performance of the APID control technique is compared with those of conventional ones via simulation. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective and enhanced the dynamic performance of the system.

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