IRJET- A Review of Power Control Strategies for DFIG based Wind Energy Conversion System

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A Review of Power Control Strategies for DFIG based Wind Energy
Conversion System
Saba Hussain1, Shilpi Sahu2, Vishnu Kumar Sahu3
1M.Tech Student, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SSGI Durg-490001, Chhattisgarh, India
2 M.Tech Student, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SSGI Durg-490001, Chhattisgarh, India
3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, SSGI Durg-490001, Chhattisgarh, India
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Abstract - Wind energy conversion system is becoming very
popular now a days and the application of wound rotor
induction machine is widely spread in wind energygenerating
stations because of its adaptability for variable speed wind
turbines through which maximum possible extraction of wind
energy is possible. Also among all the induction generator
configurations for wind power systems the use of Doubly Fed
Induction Generator (DFIG) configuration with back to back
pulse width modulated voltage source converters (VSC) is one
of the best topologies available and it is suitable for both grid
connected systems as well as stand-alone systems. In this
paper, a brief review of all the control strategies for both
stator side converter and rotor side converter are discussed in
stator flux oriented reference frame and results are compared
on the basis of cost, efficiency , power consumption and
harmonics .
Key Words: Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG),
voltage source converter(VSC), wind energyconversion
system(WECS), Rotor side converter(RSC), Grid side
converter (GSC), PI controllers, static compensator
(STATCOM), voltage-oriented control (VOC),pulsewidth
modulation(PWM).
1. INTRODUCTION:
Due to increase in global warming and devastating
contamination of the world’s environment there is an
increase in the use of non conventional resources to fulfil
the energy needs of the society which includes solar cells,
wind turbines, hydro power and biomass etc. There are
many engineers and several institutes working for making
the optimal utilization of all these non-conventional energy
sources. Wind energy is one of the alternative forms of
energy that has played an important role in the history of
civilization. In earlier generation, non- conventional energy
resources were not used inlargescaleproductionduetolack
of technology. But now wind turbine technology has
emerged out with an exponential growthinthegenerationof
power. The wind power has its own importance because of
the various advancements and improved performance in
several Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS). Most of
the global energy is being increasingly generated by modern
wind power systems. Germany is among the biggest wind
power markets. The total wind farms are grown to 443 in
India. There are a number of options available for the
selection of wind power installation. DFIG consist of a two
voltage source back to back converter connected to stator
and grid side respectively. The basic working of DFIG is
based on the fact that stator side converter is usedto control
the output voltage in direct voltage control manner and the
rotor side converter is current controlled where the power
imbalance of the system is nullified using dc link voltage
controller which modifies the quadrature axis rotor current
reference value according to the changes in the wind speed
as well as the load. There are various control strategies for
DFIG. Although the converter used in the below works are
extremely similar, great differences lie within the control
strategy and complexity and therefore a brief review of
DFIG with different types of intermediate converter is
discussed below:
1.2 DFIG with Static Kramer Drive and SCR converter:
In this paper, the control of RSC and GSC is done in such a
way so that GSC is controlled for supplying harmonics in
addition to slip power transfer and RSC is used to extract
maximum power and supply reactive power to grid .The
proposed model uses WECS asa STATCOMforcompensating
harmonics during variable wind speed conditions and also
during variation in the load .STATIC KRAMER DRIVE AND
SCR CONVERTER METHOD are the two proposed
methodology described.
1.2.1(i)STATIC KRAMER DRIVE: It consist of a diode
rectifier on Rotor side and on Stator side , line commutated
inverter is implemented .This converter combination
provides a sliding mode control which converts the
dynamics of non linear system to slide by using
discontinuous control signal. Thus, providing control of
stator active and reactive power at reduced switching
frequency.
Disadvantage: This method is applicable only under super-
synchronous speed.

Fig1: DFIG with Static Kramer Drive.
1.2.2(ii) SCR CONVERTER METHODS: The limited
application of Kramer drive to operate in super synchronous
modeis mitigated by the use of SCR converter which provide
a wide range of power control at both sub and super
synchronous speed .But this approach also have some
disadvantage of firingcontrolandcommutationwithRSCand
harmonic distortion to grid, created by supply side thyristor
converter[1].
Fig2: DFIG with Back- to Back Converter
2. DFIG with Active Filter Capabilities: During power
control and power transfer to the grid , the use of converters
and the non-linear load connected to the grid may generate
harmonics which affect the generation of power .This
proposed paper presents a DFIG based WECS working as a
STATCOM in which GSC is used to supply harmonics in
addition to slip power transfer and RSC isusedfor maximum
power extraction and to supply required reactive power to
DFIG at different variable speed and loads. The RSC is
controlled in voltage oriented reference frame and so the
active and reactive powers are controlled by controlling d &
q-axis rotor currents. A-DSTATCOM (Distribution Static
Compensator) coupled with fly-wheel energystoragesystem
is used at the wind farm for mitigating harmonics and
frequency disturbances. The tuning of PI controllers used in
both RSC and GSC is achieved by Ziegler Nicholas method.
The harmonics supplied by GSC to make the grid currents
sinusoidal and balanced is achieved by an indirect current
control where fundamental frequency currentareconverted
into DC and all other harmonics are converted into non –DC
quantities. In this proposed DFIG, the reactive power for the
induction machine has been supplied from the RSC and the
load reactive power has been supplied from the GSC. The
decoupled control of both active and reactive powers is
achieved by RSC control. The proposed DFIG has also been
verified atwindturbineinstallingconditionforcompensating
harmonics and reactive power of local loads. [2]
Fig3: DFIG Model for Harmonic analysis
3. DFIG Based on Power Transfer Matrix: To avoid the
dependency of power on d-q reference frameforthe controller
operation, this proposed paper presents a power transfer
matrix that uses instantaneous real/ reactive power as system
state variables. The controller used here used 6 compensators
for capturing the maximum wind power and supplying the
required reactive power to DFIG and also providing protection
against fault .Vector control scheme in a stator field oriented
frame of reference is presented which directly controls the
machine flux and Torque by selecting suitable voltage vectors.
The multivariable control system is designed using sequential
loop closing technique which capture maximum wind power
and injects required reactivepowertosystemviaGSC.Itconsist
of two loops: (a)inner loop where the control of reactivepower
requirement of grid and machineisdone.(b)Outercontrolloop:
where Rotor speed and dc-link voltage is regulated. Also ,fault
ride through algorithms like active crowbar, series dynamic
restorer etc is suggested to provide additional protection
during fault condition .During transient,anextrafeedbackloop
which will sense only the magnitude of current has been
mentioned. This approach improves robustness of system and
also provides simplicity to control the variables during
unbalanced condition.
4. DFIG with PI Controller: In [5],the performance of PI
controller forthe control of activeandreactivepowerinDFIGis
simulated by keeping the wind turbine pitch control
deactivated .It uses a vector control to independently control
active and reactive power exchange between the stator of
generator and grid with classical PI controllers. The power Ps
and Qs are independently controlled by using a PI controller
.The PI controller used to control DFIG as generator is simple

and quick to implement .[4]. The controller forces the rotor
speed to track a desired speed reference signal chosen
according to the fundamental operating modes [5]. Each
converter requiresactiveandreactivepowercontrolinorderto
extract the optimum power from the wind turbine while
exchanging the reactive power from grid.
5. DFIG Using Fuzzy Logic Controller:
In this paper, the author displays a fuzzy logic way to deal with
control variable-speed wind turbine and a Doubly Fed
Induction Generator (DFIG) where the fuzzy controller is
utilized for the active power and reactive power control in
slow wind speed.
This paper additionally utilizes vector control methodology
that permits the independent control of the generated active
and reactive power as well as the rotor speed. In this model, a
rotor angular speed is controlled by pitch edge and the active
and reactive power are controlled by rotor voltage, which
experiences back-to-back PWM voltage source converter. The
calculation of active power is done by using both the PI
controller and fuzzy controller at rated wind speed =12m/s,
keeping the frequency and voltage constant. The reference
active power is changed at different wind speed as
Ps*=2×10^4W for (0s-5s) and Ps*=1×10^4 W for (5s-9s) and
Ps*=2.2×10^4 W for (9s-12s). A notable strategy for indirect
active and reactive power control depends on current vector
direction as forthe line voltage vector and is known as voltage-
oriented control (VOC). It ensures high dynamic and static
execution by means of internal current control loop [6]. In the
model,are introduced thedevelopmentwhicharelaterusedfor
the improvement of the machine control. This paper shows the
stator movement organized vector controland improvesthePI
control controller and using new Fuzzy approach to arrive at
the most extremewindenergyperformancecoefficientwiththe
thought of low wind speed. The block diagram of DFIG with PI
Controller AND Fuzzy controller has been described below:
Fig4: Block Diagram showing control of active and reactive power using PI and Fuzzy Controller
3. CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSION
The Literature survey of all the topologies of WECS based
DFIG provide an understanding of the different control
strategies ,its advantage, disadvantage ,operating speed etc.
and thus providing a knowledge of calculating optimum
power from the wind. As seen from the results, the static
Kramer Drive can only be used for operation during super-
synchronous speed and SCR converters is used for both
super and sub-synchronous speed.Butbothofthemresultin
harmonic distortion at the grid. The introduction of Active
Power filter using STATCOM mitigates Harmonics and
frequency disturbances. Also, this method can be used to
operate at all the range of speed and load variation. By
studying the results of different controllers,wecanconclude
that although the use of PI Controller is simple and easy to
implement, yet it result in undesirable oscillations in Power
and provide insufficient damping. Whereas, the damping

characteristics of wind energy system over a wide range of
operating wind speed,, the fuzzy Logic controller provides a
smooth active power and better power regulation and
performance.
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