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

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

18-20 May 2004

Firstpage

2015

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2004. IMTC 04. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8248-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351484

Filename

1351484