Title :
Development of a flickermeter for grid connected wind turbines using a DSP based prototyping system
Author :
Gherasim, Cristina ; Croes, Thomas ; Van den Keybus, Jeroen ; Driesen, Johan ; Belmans, Ronnie
Author_Institution :
ESAT-ELECTA, Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium
Abstract :
The measurement of one of the power quality problems which may arise in wind turbine generators, flicker, is presented. This paper focuses on the design of a complete fully digital flickermeter relying on an in-house developed measurement system, which featured a data acquisition system, using a C6711 DSP based Starter Kit (DSK) and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). To study flicker produced during wind turbines continuous operation, a special highlighting is given to simulate the voltage fluctuations on a fictitious grid.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; digital voltmeters; power engineering computing; power supply quality; power system measurement; voltage measurement; wind turbines; DSP based prototyping system; FPGA; PC monitoring; continuous operation; data acquisition system; flicker emission; fully digital flicker meter; grid connected wind turbines; modular stand-alone system; power quality problems; voltage fluctuations; wind turbine generators; Data acquisition; Digital signal processing; Field programmable gate arrays; Power generation; Power measurement; Power quality; Prototypes; Voltage fluctuations; Wind energy generation; Wind turbines;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2004. IMTC 04. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8248-X
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351484
