Real-time simulation of BLDC-based wind turbine emulator using RT-LAB

Author

Guo, Honghao ; Zhou, Bo ; Li, Jichen ; Cheng, Fangshun ; Zhang, Le

Author_Institution

Aero-Power Sci-Tech Center, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A novel wind turbine emulator (WTE) based on a torque controlled Brushless DC (BLDC) motor is presented, which can emulate the steady-state and dynamic characteristics of an actual wind turbine. Variable wind speeds, turbine inertia and torque oscillation caused by tower shadow and wind shear are all considered in the construction of the actual wind turbine model and the torque controlled BLDC model . A PI regulator is employed to make sure that the output torque of BLDC tracks the reference torque. The simulation results based on RT-LAB real-time simulation platform verify the validity of the proposed WTE.

Keywords

brushless DC motors; torque control; variable speed drives; wind turbines; BLDC; RT-LAB; torque controlled brushless DC motor; torque oscillation; turbine inertia; variable wind speeds; wind turbine emulator; DC motors; Emulation; Mathematical model; Permanent magnet motors; Steady-state; Synchronous motors; Torque control; Wind power generation; Wind speed; Wind turbines; brushless DC; real-time simulation; torque control; wind turbine emulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines and Systems, 2009. ICEMS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5177-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-88686-067-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMS.2009.5382776

Filename

5382776