Improving the fault behavior of wind farms facing wind speed changes using STATCOM

Author

Aghaebrahimi, Mohammad Reza ; Amiri, Mayssam

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Univ. of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

274

Abstract

Generation of electricity using wind power has received considerable attention worldwide in recent years but the short circuit current contribution of wind turbines has not received much attention so far. This paper considers the short circuit behavior of induction generators in a wind farm considering wind speed changes and its influence on the wind farm and the power system and tries to find a way to decrease the effect of this phenomenon. Changes in wind speed have been considered in a positive and negative ramp manner. A Matlab-Simulik simulation is used for conducting this study.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; power generation faults; ramp generators; short-circuit currents; static VAr compensators; wind power plants; wind turbines; Matlab-Simulik simulation; STATCOM; electricity Generation; fault behavior; induction generators; short circuit current; wind farms; wind power; wind speed; wind turbines; Automatic voltage control; Circuit faults; Integrated circuit modeling; Power systems; Wind farms; Wind speed; Wind turbines; STATCOM; Wind Speed Changes; Wind farm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA), 2010 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7645-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIEA.2010.5679458

Filename

5679458