Design and realization of STATCOM for power quality improvement of wind turbine with squirrel-cage induction generator

Author

Tian, Guizhen ; Wang, Shengtie ; Liu, Guangchen

Author_Institution

Faculty of Electric Power, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, China

Volume

3

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 June 2012

Firstpage

1985

Lastpage

1989

Abstract

Power variation, voltage fluctuation and flicker are critical issues related to the connecting wind turbines with squirrel-cage induction generators (SCIG) into grid. This paper investigates the use of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) to mitigate the voltage fluctuations and improve power quality of wind turbine with SCIG. The experimental setup which contains STATCOM and wind turbine generation system (WTGS) with SCIG is designed. The control system of STATCOM is designed and implemented based on the fix-point DSP of SEED-DEC2812. The wind turbine simulator is composed of squirrel-cage induction motor (SCIM), converter ACS800, data acquisition card PCI-1710 and wind turbine model based on real time workshop of matlab/simulink. The experimental results show that STATCOM can mitigate voltage fluctuation and improve power quality of wind turbine with SCIG.

Keywords

Automatic voltage control; Fluctuations; Induction generators; Power quality; Reactive power; Voltage fluctuations; Wind turbines; STATCOM; fixed-speed turbine; power quality; static VAR compensators; wind power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC), 2012 7th International

Conference_Location

Harbin, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2085-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259145

Filename

6259145