Experimental Assessment with Wind Turbine Emulator of Variable-Speed Wind Power Generation System using Boost Chopper Circuit of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

Sirichai Tammaruckwattana; Kazuhiro Ohyama; Chenxin Yue

Experimental Assessment with Wind Turbine Emulator of Variable-Speed Wind Power Generation System using Boost Chopper Circuit of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

Sirichai Tammaruckwattana

Kazuhiro Ohyama

Chenxin Yue

Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 246-255, Jan. 2015

10.6113/JPE.2015.15.1.246

Boost chopper circuit

Permanent magnet synchronous generator

Variable-speed wind generator system

Wind turbine emulator

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Abstract

This paper presents experimental results and its assessment of a variable-speed wind power generation system (VSWPGS) usingpermanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) and boost chopper circuit (BCC). Experimental results are obtained by a testbench with a wind turbine emulator (WTE). WTE reproduces the behaviors of a windmill by using servo motor drives. Themechanical torque references to drive the servo motor are calculated from the windmill wing profile, wind velocity, and windmillrotational speed. VSWPGS using PMSG and BCC has three speed control modes for the level of wind velocity to control therotational speed of the wind turbine. The control mode for low wind velocity regulates an armature current of generator with BCC. The control mode for middle wind velocity regulates a DC link voltage with a vector-controlled inverter. The control mode for highwind velocity regulates a pitch angle of the wind turbine with a pitch angle control system. The hybrid of three control modesextends the variable-speed range. BCC simplifies the maintenance of VSWPGS while improving reliability. In addition, VSWPGSusing PMSG and BCC saves cost compared with VSWPGS using a PWM converter.

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[IEEE Style]

S. Tammaruckwattana, K. Ohyama, C. Yue, "Experimental Assessment with Wind Turbine Emulator of Variable-Speed Wind Power Generation System using Boost Chopper Circuit of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 246-255, 2015. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2015.15.1.246.

[ACM Style]

Sirichai Tammaruckwattana, Kazuhiro Ohyama, and Chenxin Yue. 2015. Experimental Assessment with Wind Turbine Emulator of Variable-Speed Wind Power Generation System using Boost Chopper Circuit of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator. Journal of Power Electronics, 15, 1, (2015), 246-255. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2015.15.1.246.