Real-time wind turbine emulator for testing wind energy conversion systems

Author

Kumsup, Santaphon ; Tarasantisuk, Chanrit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Rajamangala Univ. of Technol. Krungthep, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2010

fDate

18-22 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The paper presents the development of wind turbine emulator which consists of an induction motor, torque inverter and real-time interface card. The wind turbine emulator system includes wind speed profiles, mathematical model of wind turbines, modeling of rotor blade characteristics and modeling of rotor inertia. Wind speed can be easily programmed based on white noise random model, or recorded wind speed or manual speed reference. The developed algorithm was implemented by DS1104 real-time interface card and Matlab/Simulink realtime control programming. The wind turbine emulator was tested in laboratory with 1 kW separate excited dc generator. The power responses, torque responses and wind speed responses confirm that the system can perform satisfactorily under step commands, wind speed profiles and rotor blade sizes.

Keywords

direct energy conversion; induction motors; invertors; power system simulation; torque; wind power; wind turbines; DS1104 real-time interface card; Matlab/Simulink realtime control programming; dc generator; induction motor; mathematical model; power 1 kW; real-time wind turbine emulator; rotor blade modeling; rotor inertia modeling; torque inverter; white noise random model; wind energy conversion systems; wind speed profiles; wind turbines; Blades; Induction motors; Mathematical model; Rotors; Torque; Wind speed; Wind turbines; DS1104; real-time control; wind emulator; wind turbine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conference and Exhibition (EnergyCon), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Manama

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9378-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771791

Filename

5771791