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e-ISSN: 2278-1676,p-ISSN: 2320-3331, Volume 10, Issue 3 Ver. IV (May – Jun. 2015), PP 32-39
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DOI: 10.9790/1676-10343239 www.iosrjournals.org 32 | Page
Design and Analysis of Wind Turbine PMSG with Direct Current
Vector Control
Sayyed Tafassul A 1
, Jagadeesh Bichagatti 2
1,2
(P.G.Department, M.B.E.S.C.O.E Ambajogai./ Dr.B.A.M.University, INDIA )
Abstract : This paper proposes the direct current vector control for direct driven permanent magnet
synchronous generators for wind application. Permanent magnet synchronous generators based wind system is
proposed in this paper and also this paper presents comparisons between the modelling of conventional method
and proposed vector controlled mechanism. An optimal control configuration is presented, Total circuit
configuration is designed and simulated in MATLAB software and simulation results are also presented in this
paper.
Keywords - PMSG Based wind system, MATLAB software, SIMSCAPE Library.
I. Introduction
Conservation of the non-renewable resources motivate to explore the new avenues of resources for
electricity generation which could be clean, safe and most valuable to serve the society for a long period. The
option came with huge number of hands up a source which is a part of our natural environment and eco friendly
is the Renewable Energy Sources (RES).
Wind energy is today’s most promptly growing renewable energy source. The wind turbine extracted
power depends upon wind velocity and wind turbine structure. A wind turbine operates either at a fixed or
variable speed[1]. The variable speed wind turbines are the most common type of wind energy conversion
system (WECS).Because they are able to extract more power than fixed speed wind turbine. Developing new
megawatt scale wind turbines based on variable-speed operation with pitch control using either a permanent
magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) or a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)is preferred by most of the
manufacturers [2].Though the variable speed wind turbine with a multi-pole PMSG and full-scale/ fully
controllable voltage source converters (VSCs) is considered to b more efficient , it is not popular wind turbine
concept [3].
The advantages of such a PMSG configuration are
1) Gearless construction [4];
2) Elimination of a dc excitation system [5];
3) Maximum wind power extraction and grid interface; and
4) Ease in accomplishing fault – ride through and grid support [6].
Therefore, the efficiency and reliability of a VSC-based PMSG wind turbine is assessed to be higher
than that of a DFIG wind turbine [7]. Due to the intensified grid codes, a PMSG wind turbine with full VSC-
based insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) converters are becoming more and more enhanced by the wind
power industry [3]–[7].
At the present time, however, commercial PMSG technology mainly uses a passive rectifier followed
by an IGBT inverter [9]–[10]. The highly efficient vector – controlled technology for a PMSG wind turbine that
uses a full voltage – source IGBT converter configuration is still under investigation [11]–[12] and not widely
adopted by the wind power industry. The direct-current vector control technology is a vector control technology
that has been developed recently to control the synchronous generator only in a variable – speed PMSG wind
turbine and for control of a VSC – based HVDC system. Compared to the conventional vector control strategies,
direct – current vector control has illustrated many advantages in those applications, such as enhanced system
stability, reliability, and efficiency. But it is not clear whether the direct-current vector control can be employed
in a PMSG wind turbine for control of both PMSG machine – and grid- side converters (GSCs), and how the
PMSG system will be have in the integrated environment for multiple PMSG control purposes.
This paper presents mechanisms for optimal control of a PMSG wind turbine system under a direct-
current dq vector control configuration. Based on the proposed control structure, the overall control functions of
a PMSG system are developed, including maximum power extraction control, dc link voltage control, reactive
power control, and grid voltage support control.

Design and analysis of wind turbine PMSG with direct current vector control
II. PMSG Model And Integrated Controls
Permanent magnetic synchronous generator wind turbine [4] which is based on voltage source
converter mainly consists of three major parts (see Fig. 1). Which are mentioned below as
1) Back to back two voltage source converters
2) Drive train of wind turbine
3) A permanent magnetic synchronous generator
Figure2.1: Configuration of a Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Generator wind turbine.
The rotor blades of the wind turbine which are in the turbine drive train catches the wind energy which
is then transferred to the generator existing in the synchronous generator. As the principle of a generator we
know which converts mechanical energy to electrical energy this generator is used as a standard permanent
magnet synchronous machine [5] with its stator windings through a frequency converter it is connected to the
grid. The frequency converter is built by two current-regulated voltage-source PWM (pulse width modulation)
converters. They are Machine Side Controller(MSC) and a Grid Side Controller (GSC) in which there is a dc
voltage link in between both the pulse width modulation (PWM) converters [8].
The control of permanent magnetic synchronous generator system mainly consists of three levels:1)The
Wind Turbine Level; 2)The Wind Power Plant Level;3)The Generator Level.
1) The Wind Turbine Level
At the wind turbine level, there exists a power limiting controller and a speed controller as shown in the
figure1. The speed controller gives a torque or power references to the Machine Side controller (MSC) based on
the principle of maximum energy capture at low wind speeds. The power limiting controller decreases or
increases the pitch angle to prevent the turbine from going over the rated power at high wind speeds of wind
turbine blades.
2) The Wind Power Plant Level
At the wind power plant level, based on the grid requirements the power production of the entire plant
is determined. According to a grid need the central control system sends out reference power signals to each
individual wind turbine [3], while the local turbine control system ensures that the reference power signal which
is sent by the central control system is reached.
3) The Generator Level
As shown in the figure1 at the generator level, each of the two Voltage Source Converters are
controlled through decoupled dq vector control which approaches in the conventional technology. The Machine
Side Controller controls the Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Generator to achieve the following goals: To
extract the maximum energy [7] from the wind and compliance with the control demand from the wind power
plant control centre. The Grid Side Controller maintains a constant dc-link voltage and a reactive power
absorbed from the grid is adjusted by the converter.

A. Generator Model
PMSG transient model is the Park model. Therefore the stator voltage equation is given by































 
sq
sd
e
sq
sd
sq
sd
s
dt
d
i
i
R
vsq
sd





01
10
(1)
where Rs is the resistance of the stator winding, e is the generator electrical rotational speed, and
sd , sqv , sdi , sqi , sd and sq are the d- and q-component of instant stator voltage, current ,and flux. Then
the stator flux linkages are given by
0
0 0
sd ls dm sd f
sq ls qm sq
L L i
L L i
 



      
       
       (2)
where lsL is the leakage inductance of the stator winding, dmL and qmL are the stator and rotor d-
and q-axis mutual inductances, respectively, f is the flux linkage produced by the Permanent magnet. The
electromagnetic torque is
 
  
em sd sq sq sd
em f sq d q sd sq
p i i
p i L L i i
  
 

 


(3)
where
qmlsq
dmlsd
LLL
LLL


Under the steady state condition ,(1 ) reduces to





























fesq
sd
sde
qes
sq
sd
I
I
RL
LR
V
V

 0
(4)
For a direct-driven multiple pole PMSG [9],[10] and the stator winding resistance is much smaller than
the synchronous reactance and the difference between the d- and q-axis mutual inductance is very small.
Therefore, (3) reduces to (5)
em f sqp i  (5)
Therefore the steady-state stator d-and q-axis currents from (4) are given by
/ ( ),
( ) / ( )
sq sd e q
sd sq e f e d
I V L
I V L

  
 
  (6)
B. Wind Turbine Model
The mechanical power extracted by the wind turbine is given by the cube law equation
  3.,
2
1
  vCAP pbladeair
(7)

/blade mR    (8)
Where air is the air density,
bladeA is the area covered by the rotor blades,
pC is turbine performance coefficient ,
v is the wind speed ,
bladeR is the radius of rotor ,
 is the tip speed ratio ,is the rotational speed of the rotor
III. Direct Current Vector Control Of MSC
The direct-current vector control strategy of the MSC , is a nested loop structure as shown in Fig. 2. It
consists of three parts :
1) Transformation from speed control to current control.
2) Development of a direct current control mechanism.
3) Conversion from current control signals to voltage control signals.
Figure 3.1 : Direct-current vector control structure of the MSC.
First, the transformation from speed control to torque control is done using a speed loop controller.
Then the torque control is converted to stator d and q axis current control, while the stator d-axis current is set to
zero.
Second, the reference signals to an inner current loop controller are the d and q-axis currents generated
by the speed loop controller. It is necessary to give that a fast current loop controller to assure high performance
operation of the synchronous generator in terms of reduced harmonics and stator current unbalance.
The direct-current vector control mechanism of the MSC outputs d- and q-axis tuning currents 'sdi
and 'sqi , in which the input error signal tells the controller how much the tuning current should be adjusted
through an adaptive tuning strategy
Third, due to a VSC structure of the MSC, the stator d and q-axis tuning current signals 'sdi and 'sqi
generated by the current-loop controllers are transferred to stator d- and q-axis voltage signals v*sd and v*sq to
control the synchronous generator. The conversion from the current to voltage control signals is given by (9)
fesddesqssq
sqqesdssd
iLiR
iLiR




''*
''*
(9)

IV. Conventional And Direct-Current Vector Control Of GSC
The direct-current vector control strategy of the GSC is shown in Fig. 3 is implemented through a
nested-loop controller in the following way:
1) Transforming the dc-link voltage and reactive power control to d- and q-axis current control.
2) Developing a direct current control scheme.
3) Converting current control signals to voltage control signals
.
Figure 4.1 : Direct-current vector control structure of the GSC.
First, the dc-link voltage control is transformed to d-axis current control through a dc-link voltage
controller, and the ac system reactive power control is transformed to q-axis current control through a reactive
power controller. Second, an inner current-loop controller is developed based on a direct-current vector control
mechanism by generating d- and q-axis tuning current signals 'sdi and 'sqi through an adaptive tuning
strategy[11],[12]. The purpose of the current loop controller is to assure the highest power quality of the ac
system in terms of harmonics and unbalance. Due to the VSC structure for the GSC, the d and q-tuning current
signals 'sdi and 'sqi generated by the current-loop controllers are transferred to d- and q-voltage signals v*d1
and v*q1. The conversion from the current to voltage control signals is implemented through
1
1
* ' '
* ' '
d f d s f q d
q f q s f d
R i L i v
R i L i
 
 
 
   (10)
V. MATLAB Modeling
In order to model the above circuit it needed to know the elements where it is available in the
MATLAB library here we are using the 575v voltage source that is available in SIMSCAPE library
SIMPOWER system block in electrical sources classification.
Figure 5.1: SIMULINK model of proposed converter

VI. Simulation Results
The following diagrams shows the simulation results of the proposed converter topology and following
diagrams are MATLAB based results. The figure 6.1 represents the generator speed of the proposed direct-
current vector control of direct-driven PMSG for wind application
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
x 10
6
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
time
wr
wr
Figure6.1: Generator speed representation
The figure 6.2 represents the active and reactive power of the proposed direct-current vector control of
direct-driven PMSG for wind application.
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
x 10
6
-1
-0.8
-0.6
-0.4
-0.2
0
0.2
0.4
time
power
P
Q
Figure6.2: active and reactive power
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
x 10
6
-0.4
-0.2
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
time
Statordqcurrent
Isd
Isq
Figure6.3: stator dq current representation

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
x 10
6
-0.1
-0.05
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
time
statordqcurrents Isd
Isq
Figure 6.4: grid dq current representation
Figure 6.5: grid ABC current representation
Figure 6.6: stator ABC current representation
VII. Conclusion
The modeling of the proposed direct current vector control for direct driven permanent magnet
synchronous generators for wind application is simulated using the MATLAB software. Permanent magnet
synchronous generators based wind system MATLAB SIMLINK modeling is proposed in this paper and also
this paper successfully presents comparisons between the modeling of conventional method and proposed vector
controlled mechanism. Total circuit configuration is designed and simulated in MATLAB software.
Comprehensive simulation studies demonstrate that a PMSG wind turbine, based on the direct-current vector
control structure, can effectively accomplish the wind turbine control objectives with superior performance
within the physical constraints of the system under both steady and variable wind conditions.

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