Dynamic performance analysis of a wind farm equipped with STATCOM

Author

Marei, Mostafa I. ; El-Goharey, Hamdy S. K.

Author_Institution

Electr. Power & Machines Dept., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2013

Firstpage

421

Lastpage

426

Abstract

This work presents extensive investigation on the dynamic performance of a fixed speed wind farm equipped with Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM). The STATCOM controller is tailored to regulate the terminal voltage at the wind farm to improve its Low Voltage Ride-Through (LVRT) capability. Consequently, the STATCOM compensates for the reactive power of the wind farm during the recovery from the fault leading to system stability improvement. Simulation results obtained from PSCAD/EMTDC package are discussed to illustrate the dynamic behavior of the proposed scheme.

Keywords

power generation control; power generation faults; static VAr compensators; voltage control; wind power plants; EMTDC package; LVRT capability; PSCAD package; STATCOM; dynamic performance analysis; fixed speed wind farm; low voltage ride-through; reactive power compensation; static synchronous compensators; system stability improvement; terminal voltage regulation; Automatic voltage control; Circuit faults; Generators; Reactive power; Torque; Wind farms; Wind turbines; STATCOM; fixed speed wind farm; low voltage ride-through; voltage regulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG), 2013 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

2155-5516

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PowerEng.2013.6635644

Filename

6635644