Energy Yield and Power Fluctuation of Different Control Methods for Wind Energy Converters

Author

Ni, Bingchang ; Sourkounis, Constantinos

Author_Institution

Res. Group for Power Syst. Technol. & Power Mechatron., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

3-7 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

With worldwide increasing shares of electricity generated by wind energy converters, their influence on the mains stability and their reliable energy contribution becomes more and more relevant. The system management of wind energy converters has great influence on the power yield and the damping/amplification of wind caused power fluctuations. This paper compares the performance of different control methods for wind energy converters, regarding their energy yield and electrical power output fluctuation at different wind conditions. The results show that the Stochastic Dynamic Optimization control combines very high energy yield with the best fluctuation damping.

Keywords

adaptive control; optimal control; power convertors; power generation control; stochastic systems; wind power plants; adaptive control; electrical power output fluctuation; energy yield; fluctuation damping; optimal control; stochastic dynamic optimization control; system management; wind energy converters; Converters; Fluctuations; Generators; Rotors; Torque; Wind energy; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6393-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2010.5615951

Filename

5615951