Supercapacitor based energy storage system for effective fault ride through of wind generation system

Author

Alam, M. Ahsanul ; Rahim, A.H.M.A. ; Abido, M.A.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2010

fDate

4-7 July 2010

Firstpage

2481

Lastpage

2486

Abstract

This paper investigates the potential of supercapacitor based energy storage system for enhancing fault ride through capability of wind driven induction generator. A dynamic model of wind generation system including Static Compensator (STATCOM) is developed. The power control capability of the STATCOM is extended by incorporating supercapacitor based energy storage system. A vector control technique based on the decoupling of real and reactive power is implemented. Simulation results show that fixed speed induction generator achieves significant grid fault withstand capability when aided by supercapacitor based energy storage system. Induction generator regains prefault status immediately after the fault is cleared.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; energy storage; machine vector control; static VAr compensators; supercapacitors; wind power plants; STATCOM; fault ride through; power control; static compensator; supercapacitor based energy storage system; vector control; wind driven induction generator; wind generation system; Automatic voltage control; Converters; Induction generators; Reactive power; Supercapacitors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6390-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637709

Filename

5637709