Local compensation of wind energy conversion system

Author

Singer, A. ; Hofmann, W.

Author_Institution

Chemnitz Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2005

Abstract

As the demand for renewable energy increases, the role that offshore wind power plants play in generation will become more and more crucial. Permanent magnet salient pole synchronous machines connected to DC network provide an alternative to offshore wind power plants. Fixed excitation is the main drawback. External compensation is an attractive solution to this problem. This paper provides a comparison between different compensation methods applied to permanent magnet salient pole synchronous generator (PSG) at different excitation levels i.e. under-and over-excited. An analytical derivation of the increase in the electrical power resulting from different types of compensation is deduced. The calculation of the losses of the inverter and efficiency accompanied with each type of compensation are presented

Keywords

compensation; direct energy conversion; invertors; offshore installations; permanent magnet generators; synchronous generators; wind power plants; DC network; excitation levels; local compensation; offshore wind power plants; permanent magnet salient pole synchronous machines; renewable energy; wind energy conversion system; Costs; Maintenance; Permanent magnets; Power generation; Reactive power; Static VAr compensators; Synchronous generators; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Wind power generation; Efficiency; SVC Static Var Compensator; Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM); Wind Generator System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

Print_ISBN

90-75815-09-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2005.219512

Filename

1665702