scholarly journals Control and Estimation of a Variable Pitch Wind Turbine for Maximum Power Point Tracking

Author(s):  
Ranjan Vepa
Author(s):  
Leonardo Candido Corrêa ◽  
João Manoel Lenz ◽  
Cláudia Garrastazu Ribeiro ◽  
Felix Alberto Farret

An emulator for the nonconventional Magnus wind turbine was designed and developed in this study. A brief discussion is made of this special case of horizontal axis wind generator and of the main physics principles involving the Magnus phenomenon. A mathematical model was used to emulate the static behavior of the Magnus wind turbine and a detailed analysis is presented about its peculiar rotating cylinder characteristics. Based on the relationship between cylinder blade rotation and power coefficient, a hill climb search algorithm was developed to perform maximum power point tracking. The impact of the cylinder's rotation speed on the turbine net output power was evaluated. A controlled direct current motor was used to provide torque, based on the Magnus turbine model, and drive a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG); the latter was controlled by a buck converter in order to extract the maximum generated power (MGP). Simulations of the Magnus wind turbine model and its maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control are also presented. A prototype of the proposed emulator was developed and operated by a user-friendly LabVIEW interface. Measurements of the power delivered to the load were acquired for different wind speeds; these results were analyzed and compared with simulated values showing a good behavior of the emulator with respect to the turbine model. The proposed control technique for maximizing the output power was validated by emulated results. The modeling and development of the Magnus turbine emulator also serve to encourage further studies on generation and control with this wind machine.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1529
Author(s):  
Chao Ai ◽  
Wei Gao ◽  
Qinyu Hu ◽  
Yankang Zhang ◽  
Lijuan Chen ◽  
...  

Taking the hydraulic wind turbine as the research object, the method is studied to improve the utilization ratio of wind energy for hydraulic wind turbine, when the wind speed is lower than the rated wind speed. The hydraulic fixed displacement pump speed and generating power can be used as control output to realize the maximum power point tracking control. The characteristics of the maximum power point tracking control are analyzed for hydraulic wind turbine, and the hydraulic output power is taken as control output based on the comprehensive performance requirements. Because the hydraulic wind turbine is a strong multiplication nonlinear system, the system is globally linearized based the feedback linearization method, and the maximum power point tracking control law is obtained. The simulation and experiment results show that the system has good dynamic performance with the proposed control law. The control provides theoretical guidance for optimal power tracking control law application for hydraulic wind turbine.


2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 1098-1104
Author(s):  
Shao Jian Song ◽  
Fei Long Zhang ◽  
Bi Lian Liao

Wind turbine system with Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) is a complex nonlinear system of multi-interference and strong coupling, so its accurate mathematical model is difficult to be built. Due to the randomness of the wind, traditional PID control is often hard to get satisfactory results in the Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control of the wind turbine. A new adaptive optimization control based on action dependent heuristic dynamic programming (ADHDP) is presented to control the stator current of PMSG. The stator current of the generator can adapt the change of the wind speed, so the MPPT of PMSG can be achieved. Simulation results in Matlab/Simulink show that the ADHDP controller can get better performances than PID controller.


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