A new hybrid control method for controlling back-to-back converter in permanent magnet synchronous generator wind turbines

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 033133
Author(s):  
N. Namjoo ◽  
F. Abbasi ◽  
F. Hassanzadeh ◽  
H. Asrari ◽  
A. Hajizadeh
Inventions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Wenping Cao ◽  
Ning Xing ◽  
Yan Wen ◽  
Xiangping Chen ◽  
Dong Wang

Wind energy conversion systems have become a key technology to harvest wind energy worldwide. In permanent magnet synchronous generator-based wind turbine systems, the rotor position is needed for variable speed control and it uses an encoder or a speed sensor. However, these sensors lead to some obstacles, such as additional weight and cost, increased noise, complexity and reliability issues. For these reasons, the development of new sensorless control methods has become critically important for wind turbine generators. This paper aims to develop a new sensorless and adaptive control method for a surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous generator. The proposed method includes a new model reference adaptive system, which is used to estimate the rotor position and speed as an observer. Adaptive control is implemented in the pulse-width modulated current source converter. In the conventional model reference adaptive system, the proportional-integral controller is used in the adaptation mechanism. Moreover, the proportional-integral controller is generally tuned by the trial and error method, which is tedious and inaccurate. In contrast, the proposed method is based on model predictive control which eliminates the use of speed and position sensors and also improves the performance of model reference adaptive control systems. In this paper, the proposed predictive controller is modelled in MATLAB/SIMULINK and validated experimentally on a 6-kW wind turbine generator. Test results prove the effectiveness of the control strategy in terms of energy efficiency and dynamical adaptation to the wind turbine operational conditions. The experimental results also show that the control method has good dynamic response to parameter variations and external disturbances. Therefore, the developed technique will help increase the uptake of permanent magnet synchronous generators and model predictive control methods in the wind power industry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Shengquan ◽  
Li Juan ◽  
Tang Yongwei ◽  
Shi Yanqiu ◽  
Cao Wei

This paper deals with the critical issue in a direct-driven permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)-based wind energy conversion system (WECS): the rejection of internal and external disturbances, including the uncertainties of external environment, rapid wind speed changes in the original parameters of the generator caused by mutative operating conditions. To track the maximum power, a maximum power point tracking strategy based on model predictive controller (MPC) is proposed with extended state observer (ESO) to attenuate the disturbances and uncertainties. In real application, system inertia and the system parameters vary in a wide range with variations of wind speeds and disturbances, which substantially degrade the maximum power tracking performance of wind turbine. The MPC design should incorporate the available model information into the ESO to improve the control efficiency. Based on this principle, a model-based MPC with ESO control structure is proposed in this paper. Simulation study is conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed control strategy. It is shown that the effect of internal and external disturbances is compensated in a more effective way compared with the ESO-based MPC approach and traditional proportional integral differential (PID) control method.


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