Dynamic disturbance of wind farm connected to 14 bus network

Author

Amin, A.M. ; Mahfouz, M.M.A. ; Youssef, Erhab B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Power, Helwan Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2010

fDate

21-24 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Induction generators are the most popular in wind energy conversion system due to its simplicity and absence of synchronization problem. However the major drawback of this machine is its additional reactive burden on the electric network. This paper studies the voltage stability of wind farms (WFs) Connected to IEEE 14 bus network during system disturbances such as a load change, three phase fault or island condition. Those disturbances have a great impact on the system voltages and frequency. A static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is proposed to maintain voltage and frequency within grid codes requirements. The proposed system shows an excellent performance it maintains the voltage and frequency constants by injection controllable reactive power during system disturbances. MATLAB/SIMULINK and the Power System Analysis Toolbox (PSAT) package are used for the simulation.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; direct energy conversion; networks (circuits); power system faults; power system stability; static VAr compensators; wind power plants; 14 bus network; MATLAB/SIMULINK; STATCOM; dynamic disturbance; electric network; induction generators; injection controllable reactive power; island condition; load change; power system analysis toolbox package; static synchronous compensator; system disturbances; three phase fault; wind energy conversion system; wind farms voltage stability; Automatic voltage control; Control systems; Frequency synchronization; Induction generators; Power system simulation; Reactive power control; Stability; Voltage control; Wind energy; Wind farms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear & Renewable Energy Conference (INREC), 2010 1st International

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5213-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5214-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INREC.2010.5462591

Filename

5462591