scholarly journals Self-Tuning Control Techniques for Wind Turbine and Hydroelectric Plant Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 27-61
Author(s):  
Silvio Simani ◽  
Stefano Alvisi ◽  
Mauro Venturini
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Hydroelectric Plant ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Self Tuning

scholarly journals Self--Tuning Control Techniques for Wind Turbine and Hydroelectric Plant Systems

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Simani ◽  
Stefano Alvisi ◽  
Mauro Venturini
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Hydroelectric Plant ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Energy Conversion Systems ◽  
Self Tuning

The interest on the use of renewable energy resources is increasing, especially towards wind and hydro powers, which should be efficiently converted into electric energy via suitable technology tools. To this aim, self--tuning control techniques represent viable strategies that can be employed for this purpose, due to the features of these nonlinear dynamic processes working over a wide range of operating conditions, driven by stochastic inputs, excitations and disturbances. Some of the considered methods were already verified on wind turbine systems, and important advantages may thus derive from the appropriate implementation of the same control schemes for hydroelectric plants. This represents the key point of the work, which provides some guidelines on the design and the application of these control strategies to these energy conversion systems. In fact, it seems that investigations related with both wind and hydraulic energies present a reduced number of common aspects, thus leading to little exchange and share of possible common points. This consideration is particularly valid with reference to the more established wind area when compared to hydroelectric systems. In this way, this work recalls the models of wind turbine and hydroelectric system, and investigates the application of different control solutions. The scope is to analyse common points in the control objectives and the achievable results from the application of different solutions. Another important point of this investigation regards the analysis of the exploited benchmark models, their control objectives, and the development of the control solutions. The working conditions of these energy conversion systems will be also taken into account in order to highlight the reliability and robustness characteristics of the developed control strategies, especially interesting for remote and relatively inaccessible location of many installations.

scholarly journals Voltage Recovery Control Techniques of Grid Connected Variable Speed Wind Turbines at a Short Circuit

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 868-873
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Power Quality ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Pitch Control ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Voltage Recovery ◽  
Dynamic Slip

The documented investigation in this paper examines main power quality for wind turbines and its connection with the public grid. This main goal has been to investigate most popular type of wind turbines which are grid connected using doubly-fed induction generators (DFIG) at normal operation, as well as voltage control of these wind turbines after clearing a lines short circuit in the utility grid. This paper introduces the configuration of main portions of grid connected turbines, which have an importance in the wind power plants operation. It also proposes a new compact modeling of these wind turbines, which has a feature that the expressions of most plant portions are free of any complex or details that described in other past models. Most of last models are spotted on the normal operation of single wind turbines, without consideration of gird interaction faults. The proposed control techniques are new combined and concentrated on the voltage recovery, which plays very important role in the power quality and stability of wind turbines plants which are connected with the grid. Net simulation results show that the combination of pitch control and dynamic slip control could to have power system stability efficiently, and restore the voltage to its normal condition. A simulation of wind turbine using pitch control and dynamic slip control are developed by the simulation program is called power system computer aiding design (PSCAD) and carried out the stability investigations respecting to short circuit in external power lines system. After clearing of the fault, the recovery of voltage at the terminals of wind turbine should to rebuild, then the wind power turbine should going to its normal case. Control of the pitch angle or generator slip can adjusting the aerodynamic torque and the electromagnetic torque at the turbine which can be help to recovery the voltage at the terminals of wind turbine. The results of case study simulation are proved that pitch and dynamic slip controls are methods to improve the recovery of voltage effectively and going to the system stability quickly, especially the combined controls of dynamic slip and pitch angel together.

A novel self-tuning PI controller for a DFIG-based wind turbine system

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Shubhranshu Mohan Parida ◽  
Pravat Kumar Rout ◽  
Sanjeeb Kumar Kar
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Pi Controller ◽  
Wind Turbine System ◽  
Self Tuning

scholarly journals Data-Driven Control Techniques for Renewable Energy Conversion Systems: Wind Turbine and Hydroelectric Plants

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Simani ◽  
Stefano Alvisi ◽  
Mauro Venturini
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Model Predictive Control ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Predictive Control ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Energy Conversion Systems ◽  
Hydroelectric Plants

The interest in the use of renewable energy resources is increasing, especially towards wind and hydro powers, which should be efficiently converted into electric energy via suitable technology tools. To this end, data-driven control techniques represent viable strategies that can be employed for this purpose, due to the features of these nonlinear dynamic processes of working over a wide range of operating conditions, driven by stochastic inputs, excitations and disturbances. Therefore, the paper aims at providing some guidelines on the design and the application of different data-driven control strategies to a wind turbine benchmark and a hydroelectric simulator. They rely on self-tuning PID, fuzzy logic, adaptive and model predictive control methodologies. Some of the considered methods, such as fuzzy and adaptive controllers, were successfully verified on wind turbine systems, and similar advantages may thus derive from their appropriate implementation and application to hydroelectric plants. These issues represent the key features of the work, which provides some details of the implementation of the proposed control strategies to these energy conversion systems. The simulations will highlight that the fuzzy regulators are able to provide good tracking capabilities, which are outperformed by adaptive and model predictive control schemes. The working conditions of the considered processes will be also taken into account in order to highlight the reliability and robustness characteristics of the developed control strategies, especially interesting for remote and relatively inaccessible location of many plants.

scholarly journals An overview of control techniques for wind turbine systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. e00566
Author(s):  
O. Apata ◽  
D.T.O. Oyedokun
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Control Techniques

scholarly journals Data–Driven Control Techniques for Renewable Energy Conversion Systems: Wind Turbine and Hydroelectric Plants

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Simani ◽  
Stefano Alvisi ◽  
Mauro Venturini
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Energy Conversion Systems ◽  
Hydroelectric Plants

The interest on the use of renewable energy resources is increasing, especially towards wind and hydro powers, which should be efficiently converted into electric energy via suitable technology tools. To this aim, data--driven control techniques represent viable strategies that can be employed for this purpose, due to the features of these nonlinear dynamic processes working over a wide range of operating conditions, driven by stochastic inputs, excitations and disturbances. Some of the considered methods, such as fuzzy and adaptive self--tuning controllers, were already verified on wind turbine systems, and similar advantages may thus derive from their appropriate implementation and application to hydroelectric plants. These issues represent the key features of the work, which provides some guidelines on the design and the application of these control strategies to these energy conversion systems. The working conditions of these systems will be also taken into account in order to highlight the reliability and robustness characteristics of the developed control strategies, especially interesting for remote and relatively inaccessible location of many installations.

CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR LOSSES REDUCTION IN WIND TURBINE DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-329
Author(s):  
Ahmed S. Serry ◽  
Medhat H. El-Far ◽  
Ahmed E. Kalas ◽  
Fathy E. Abdel-Kader
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Induction Generator ◽  
Doubly Fed Induction Generator ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Doubly Fed
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