Low Voltage Ride-through for Doubly Fed Induction Generator Using Battery-Storage System

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS)
Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2016, pp. 481~497
ISSN: 2088-8694  481
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Low Voltage Ride-through for Doubly Fed Induction Generator
Using Battery-Storage System
D.V.N. Ananth*, G.V. Nagesh Kumar**
* Electrical Engineering Department, VITAM College of Engineering, Visakapatnam, India
** Electrical Department, GITAM UNIVERSITY, Visakapatnam, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Dec 11, 2015
Revised Mar 31, 2015
Accepted Apr 10, 2016
In this paper, enhanced field oriented control technique (EFOC) was adopted
in Rotor Side Control (RSC) of DFIG converter for improved response
during severe faults. The work is intended to damp pulsations in
electromagnetic torque, improve voltage mitigation and limit surge currents
and to enhance the operation of DFIG during voltage sags. The converter
topology uses a battery energy storage system with capacitor storage system
to further enhance operation of DFIG during faults. The battery and capacitor
system in coordination provide additional real and reactive power support
during faults and nearly constant voltage profile at stator and rotor terminals
and limit overcurrents. For EFOC technique, rotor flux reference changes its
value from synchronous speed to zero during fault for injecting current at the
rotor slip frequency. In this process DC-Offset component of flux is
controlled, decomposition during overvoltage faults. The offset
decomposition of flux will be oscillatory in a conventional FOC, whereas in
EFOC it will damp quickly. A comparison is made with proposed
methodology with battery energy storage system and a conventional system.
Later the system performance with under voltage of 50% the rated voltage
with fault at PCC during 0.8 to 1.2 seconds is analysed using simulation
studies.
Keyword:
DFIG
Field oriented control
Low voltage fault ride through
Voltage mitigation
Voltage sag
Copyright © 2016 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
G.V. Nagesh Kumar,
Departement of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
GITAM University, Visakapatnam, India.
Email: drgvnk14@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
The doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) is having better preference due to its small size with
higher MVA ratings available in the market, low power ratings of converters, variable generator speed and
constant frequency operation, robust four quadrant reactive power control and much better performance
during the low voltage ride through (LVRT). However, DFIG is sensitive to external disturbances like
voltage swell and sag. If grid voltage falls or rises suddenly due to any reason, large surge currents enter into
the rotor terminals and voltage induces significantly. Hence, the rotor side converter (RSC) will get damaged
due to exceeding voltage or the current rating. Apart from this, there will be huge electromagnetic torque
pulsations and increase in rotor speed which may reduce gears of the wind turbine-generator lifetime.
The status of research on the LVRT issue for DFIG for symmetrical and asymmetrical faults and
comparison of different control strategies is given in [1]. Understanding the capability of RSC to deliver
desired reactive power and withstanding capability during fault in [2]. In this paper, if the stator and rotor
voltages are dropped to a certain value during fault, the DFIG turbine system got synchronized quickly after
fault cleared and is made to operate as in pre-fault state. The paper aimed in smoothening of electromagnetic
torque (EMT), and to control the reactive power to grid during fault time. Enhanced reactive power support
[3], controlling DC link current of RSC to smoothen DC voltage fluctuations due to grid faults by using

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stored Kinetic Energy [4] are techniques used to improve DFIG operation during LVRT. In these papers an
additional reactive power support can enhance performance of DFIG system during sudden fault issues. Also
crowbar as passive and RSC strategy as active compensation for LVRT reactive power compensation [5],
FFTC scheme with PIR [6] and PI [7] with symmetrical and asymmetrical faults for improving uninterrupted
P, Q supply from WT to grid and enhancement based on flux trajectory [8],. In these papers authors claim
that, instead of using a conventional PI controller, PI + Resonant controller can perform better during
asymmetrical faults for DFIG system. Few intelligent control techniques like Genetic Algorithm [9] and
bacterial search etc were used in control strategies for improving the performance during LVRT and can
improve voltage and current levels during fault and makes system more sustainable during and after fault.
Some external passive elements and active sources are used in coordination for improving stability and
thereby providing a better LVRT operation of DFIG during symmetrical and asymmetrical faults. Among
external devices which were connected in coordination with DFIG system to enhance system LVRT behavior
during severe faults is Single phase crowbar [11], Super-capacitor energy storage system [12], Fault Current
Limiter (FCL) [13], Superconducting FCL with Magnetic Energy storage devices [14] were used recently.
Therefore to control over current during severe faults, conventional crowbar circuit is avoided which disable
DFIG to provide reactive power support throwing the grid into more critical state. From these papers, active
energy storage devices are much helpful for rapid real and reactive power compensation for stator and rotor
terminals with improved stability during symmetrical or asymmetrical faults.
A conventional vector control techniques in RSC does not provide low magnitude rotor over
currents. They may trigger crowbar, pushing wind system to demand reactive power. With Enhanced Flux
Oriented Control (EFOC) better reduction in rotor over currents can be made possible by considering the
effect of direct axis stator flux ф aligned with rotating stator flux. The BESS is used for controlling power
fluctuations in the wind generation system [15-18], voltage and frequency fluctuations with reduced noise
and vibration with BESS for isolated asynchronous generators is used in [19, 20]. A BESS based on multi-
level PWM inverter for continuous and improved state of charging is proposed in [21, 22]. In [22], PSO
based MIWP model is proposed to mitigate output power fluctuations in wind farm. The equivalent circuit
for lithium ion based BESS is analysed and experimentally verified in [23].
As far as the storage technique is concerned, BESS is chosen for its cost effectiveness whereas
Super Magnetic Energy Storage system is considerably cost and fly wheel [24], [25] takes large time constant
to provide dynamic support to overall wind turbine system [9]. STATCOM with EFOC technique is used for
different faults [26] for the enhancement in the performance of DFIG. Real and reactive power control is
proposed in [27] for DFIG as per grid requirement. The performance of DFIG wind energy conversion
system is compared with PI, ANN and hybrid PI and ANN in [28]. A hybrid PI and ANN controller for DFIG
is examined in [28] to rapidly changing grid voltage conditions. The authors found that, active and reactive
powers are having surges and also rotor and stator parameters got disturbed much with PI and their effects
are low with ANN. However when using both PI and ANN, the effects said above got minimized and hence
the authors in [19] conclude that hybrid is better control when grid voltage conditions are high. Also
independent control of active and reactive power examined in this paper and found that fuzzy controller is
better than conventional PI controller [29]. The authors compared the performance of DFIG during three
phase to ground when controlled using PI and fuzzy. It is found that with fuzzy, stator and rotor voltage,
current and power waveforms are better and have better stability than a conventional PI controller. The fuzzy
controller is having faster control action and accurate performance due to faster changing disturbances.
Predictive direct power control technique is applied to DFIG system in [30] to have quicker and robust
performance to maintain constant DC link voltage with lesser harmonic current and for operation during sub
synchronous and super- synchronous speed operation. Drooping characteristics of DFIG is studied in [31]
and found that DFIG output power is controlled according to varying wind speed.
The present paper describes how (LVRT) behavior is achieved without sacrificing dynamic stability
of DFIG system using an advanced control technique Enhanced Flux Oriented Control (EFOC) with aid of
effective energy storage system connected through bidirectional switches to the dc link. This supports voltage
at dc link and improves dynamic stability during symmetrical grid disturbances. This paper describes
comparison between without BESS and with BESS to the DC link during symmetrical and asymmetrical
voltage disturbances at grid. It also explains how efficiently a rotor current can be controlled with flux
oriented mechanism.
In the section 2 describes the design of RSC for EFOC. Section 3 gives modelling under transient
conditions was explained with symmetrical faults and design of EFOC for the LVRT issue is described.
Further sections 4 describe the simulation results when a fault occurs at PCC with 50% decrease in the rated
voltage. The efficacy of the proposed method is tested in the MATLAB environment and the conclusion are
given in section 5 followed by appendix and references.

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2. DESIGN OF ROTOR SIDE CONVERTER CONTROL FOR EFOC
RSC controller helps in improving reactive power demand at gris and to extract maximum power
from the machine by making the rotor to run at optimal speed. The optimal speed of the rotor is decided from
machine real power and rotor speed characteristic curves from MPPT algorithm. The stator active and
reactive power control is possible with the RSC controller strategy through i and i components
controlling respectively. The rotor voltage in a stationary reference frame [11] and further analysis from our
paper [26] is given by
V = V + R i + σL
di
dt
− jω i (1a)
with σ = 1 − and
ω is the rotor speed, i is the rotor current in a stationary frame of reference, Ls, Lr and Lm are stator, the
rotor and mutual inductance parameters in Henry or in pu
V =
L
L
(
d
dt
− jω )Φ (1b)
is the voltage induced in the stator flux with
Φ = L i + L i (2)
Φ = L i + L i (3)
The d and q axis rotor voltage equations (1a, 1b), (2) and (3) in the synchronous rotating reference frame are
given by
V =
dΦ
dt
− (ω − ω)Φ + R i (4)
V =
dΦ
dt
− (ω − ω)Φ + R i (5)
The stator and rotor two axis fluxes are
Φ = (L + L )i + L i (6)
Φ = (L + L )i + L i (7)
Φ = (L + L )i + L i (8)
Φ = (L + L )i + L i (9)
where, L = L + L , L = L + L , ω = ω − ω
By substituting (6), (7), (8), (9) in (4), (5) and by rearranging the terms, then
V = (R +
dL′
dt
)i − sω L′
i +
L
L
V (10)
V = (R +
dL′
dt
)i − sω L′
i +
L
L
(V − ωΦ ) (11)
Where ω is rotor speed, ωΦ is speed of stator flux, ω is synchronous speed.
The MATLAB/ SIMULINK based on the control circuit of RSC for enhancing performance for LVRT issues
are shown in Figure 1a, GSC converter in Figure 1b. The right side corner subsystem 2 is a sub-circuit of the
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(a)
Figure 1a. The RSC controller with EFOC technique design for Grid connected DFIG with E =
V + λ ω and E = V
(b)
Figure 1b. Grid side controller for DFIG
The above equations 10 and 11 can be rewritten in terms of decoupled parameters and are designed for RSC
controller as in equations 12 and 13.

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σV = σL
dI
dt
− ω Φ +
L
L
(V − R I + ω Φ ) (12)
σV = σL
dI
dt
− ω Φ −
L
L
(R I + ω Φ ) (13)
In general the rotor speed ω is and the synchronous speed of stator is ω .But this synchronous
frequency has to be changed from ω to a new synchronous speed value as described in flowchart in Figure 3
ω′
as it is represented commonly by ω . Under ideal conditions, reference stator d-axis flux Φ∗
is zero and
q-axis flux Φ∗
is equal to the magnitude of stator flux Φ for given back emf and rotor speed.
The GSC converter is shown in Figure 1b. the reference real power is extracted from lookup table
based on wind speed. The error in this reference to actual power is controlled using PI controller. The
difference in square of DC reference voltage to actual DC voltage is controlled using a tuned PI controller.
The difference in the above two PI controllers and multiplied with stator d-axis current vector to get
reference d-axis stator current. This current and actual stator output current is maintained to zero using PI
controller. Using decoupling voltage vector control method, referenced-axis decoupled voltage will be
extracted. In the similar way q-axis decoupled voltage vector is obtained. The d and q axis voltages are
converted to 3 phase by using inverse park’s transformation and further given to PWM to get pulses to the
grid side converter circuit.
The flux derivation technique helps in understanding the operation of DFIG during steady state and
transient state. The accuracy of system performance during steady state depends on accuracy of wind speed
measurement action of the pitch angle controller, measurement of stator current, voltage, flux and other
important parameters. The more accurate these measurements, the more can be a real power extracted
from the DFIG wind turbine system. The equations 14 to 17 plays a vital role in understanding the behavior
of DFIG during steady state and accuracy of RSC control action depends on control of the d and q axis
voltages.
3. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF RSC AND GSC CONVERTERS FOR THE GRID
CONNECTED DFIG DURING TRANSIENT STATE
3.1 Three Phase Symmetrical Faults
The stator voltage will reach zero magnitude during severe three phase’s symmetrical fault of very
low impedance and stator flux Φ gets reduced to zero magnitude. The decay in flux is not as rapid as in
voltage and can be explained from the flux decay theorem available in literature and further can be explained
as, delay is due to inertial time lag τ = effecting the rotor induced Electromotive Force (EMF) V . The
flux during fault is given by
Φ = Φ e /τ (14)
and
Φ
is negative, indicating its decay. By substituting (14) in (1b)
V = −
L
L
(
1
τ
+ jω)Φ e /τ
(15)
The above equation is converted into a rotor reference frame and neglecting
τ
V = −
L
L
(jω)Φ e ω
(16)
By substituting Φ =
ω
e ω
in (16)
V = −
L
L
(1 − s)V (17)
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The converting equation (1a) into the rotor reference frame
V = V e ω
+ R i +σL
di
dt
(18)
Thus rotor equivalent circuit derived from (16) is as shown in Figure 2 [11].
Figure 2. The rotor equivalent circuit
A considerable decrease in pre-fault steady state voltage V to certain fault voltage during a three
phase fault was explained in above analytics. However, RSC converter is designed to meet V to
match V for rotor current control and the design has to be made for rating of only 35% of stator rated
voltage. The voltage dip during fault can be adopted independently or in coordination by using two
techniques is explained below.
During fault, at first instant,Φ does not fall instantly (16) as shown in the flux and voltage
trajectories in Figure 4. If the machine is running at super synchronous speed with slip (s) near to -0.2pu,
during fault, rotor speed further increases based on the term (1-s) as given by (16).The above speed change is
uncontrollable for a generator having higher electrical and mechanical inertia constants. In order to control
the rotor current change, V has to be increased. Based on the first reason listed above, a voltage VΦ has to be
injected in the feed forward path for improving the rotor dip to reach to its near steady state value.
Converting the equation (16) into a synchronous reference frame and by considering direct alignment of Φ
with Φ we get,
VΦ = −
L
L
ωΦ (19)
The second technique for voltage increase requirement in a rotor is, dip can be compensated by
replacing sω with (ωΦ − ω) in cross coupling terms sω L′
i and sω L′
i respectively. The reduction in
magnitude and frequency of flux Φ , and alignment of flux with the stator voltage without the rate of change
in flux angle θΦ indicates DC offset component in flux.
dф
dt
= ωф = 0 = ω (20)
Here, ω is the speed of stator flux during fault and this value can be made to zero as offset.
The voltage injection components (20, 21) and compensating components as discussed above are
estimated using enhanced flux oriented control (EFOC scheme whose flow chart is shown in Figure 3 and the
determined values are incorporated in the RSC controller shown in Figure 1.
dѲф
dt
= ωф =
Vβ фα
− Vα фβ
фα
+ фβ
= ω (21)
When dynamic stability has to be improved, proposed technique controls the decrease in stator and
rotor flux magnitude and also damps oscillations at the fault instances. To achieve better performance during
transients, this paper proposes a strategy for stator frequency reference to change to zero or other value
depending type and severity of disturbance. The accurate measurement of stator and rotor parameters like
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during transients and making the two axis flux and voltage trajectories circular also improves the efficacy of
the system performance during any faults. The equations 13 to 18 help in understanding DFIG behaviour
during transient conditions and accuracy of its working depends on measurement of rotor current and flux
parameters.
3.2 EFOC control technique
The EFOC method of improving field flux oriented control technique helps in improving the
performance of the RSC controller of DFIG during fault conditions is described in Figure 4. The DCOC
observer does two actions the change in flux values of stationary frame stator references (Φα , Φβ ) for
tracking radius of trajectory and DCOC for offset change in stationary fluxes (Φ α , Φ β ) during fault
conditions and controlling them the first action helps in not losing the trajectory from a circle point, and to
reach its pre-fault state with the same radius and centre of the circle and hence improving the same rate of
flux compensation even during fault without losing stability. The second action helps in controlling and
maintaining to nearly zero magnitude using the DCOC technique.
Based on above two actions, if former one is greater with change in trajectory which generally
happens during disturbances from an external grid, stator synchronous frequency flux speed (ωΦ ) changes to
synchronous grid frequency flux (ω ) otherwise ωΦ changes to fault angular frequency value and is injected
to RSC voltage control loop as error compensator.
The general form of speed regulation is given by
T = J
dω
dt
+ Bω + T (22a)
T = (Js + B)ω + T (22b)
Where T is electromagnetic torque, J is moment of inertia and B is friction coefficient, T is
considered to be disturbance. Multiplying both sides with ω , we get the equation as
T ω = (Js + B)ω ω + T ω (23)
Considering ω constant and change in speed error is ω is control variable, the above equation
becomes.
P∗
= (K s + K ) ω + P (24)
As product of torque and speed is power, we will be getting stator reference power and disturbance
power as shown below.
P∗
− P = (K s + K )ω (25)
Where, K = J*ω and K = B*ω
Finally direct axis reference voltage can be written by using equation (25) and from Figure 4 is
V∗
= −(ω )(K +
K
s
) + (P )(K +
K
s
) (26)
V∗
= Q (K +
K
s
) (27)
V∗
= K i∗
− i + k i∗
− i dt − ω L i + +k V (28)
V∗
= K i∗
− i + k i∗
− i dt + ω L i + k V (29)
i∗
= K sqrt(V ∗
− V ) + k (V∗
− V )dt + R V (30)

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i∗
= K sqrt(V ∗
− V ) + k (V∗
− V )dt (31)
The rotating direct and quadrature reference voltages of rotor are converted into stationary abc
frame parameters by using inverse parks transformation. Slip frequency is used to generate sinusoidal and
cosine parameters for inverse parks transformation. In general, during fault and after fault, the DC link
voltage across the capacitor at the DFIG back-to-back converter terminal falls and rises, the STATCOM
helps in improving the operation and assist in regaining its voltage value respectively to get ready for the
operation during next fault. However, STATCOM provides efficient support to the grid-generator system
under severe faults by fast action in controlling reactive power flow to grid by maintaining the DC link
voltage at the capacitor terminal of DFIG converters constant particularly during transient state. Hence it
helps in improving the dynamic stability of the overall system.
Under steady state, the
rotor Synchronizing speed
will be
Under fault
Conditions,
Rotor
Synchronizing
speed
Start
Calculate the instantaneous difference
(VRYBs—RsIRYBs)
Apply Clark’s transformation to
get Vαs , Vβs
Integrate and obtain Φαs, Φβs
Calculate RΦs = Φαs
2
+ Φβs
2
Calculate DCOC= Φdc αs
2
+ Φdc βs
2
RΦs
>
If
ωΦs = ωs
ωΦs = ωf
Incorporate ωΦs and Φds in RSC
Stop
Calculate with
phase locked loop
Flux in αβ dq
transformation
Calculate Φds
NO
Yes
To improve flux
decay and mitigate
voltage, current
during faults
Figure 3. Scheme of enhanced flux oriented control where, DCOC=dc offset component of flux, RФs=radius
of flux trajectory
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The stator three phase voltages and current are used as inputs for extracting a new arbitrary
reference frame for RSC during different fault levels. Here ‘z’ is the internal resistance of the stator winding.
The voltage and current with impedance multiplication are subtracted to get reference voltage as shown in
Figure 4. Under normal conditions, the difference will be nearly zero. During fault conditions, the voltage
decreases and current increases, which make the difference between these two parameters to the picture. Now
the reference three phase voltages are converted to stationary alpha, beta (Vαs, Vβs) voltages using Clark’s
transformation. This voltage is integrated and manipulated to get stator flux Φαs, Φβs. The angle between
these two fluxes is flux angle reference θλ. This angle is used to convert Φαs, Φβs to Φds, Φqs and also the two
stationary voltages Vαs, Vβs are also converted to rotating voltages Vds, Vqs using parks transformation. The
magnitude of these two voltages is V2. The reference voltage magnitude of stator is V1. During normal
conditions, V1 and V2 are same. But during voltage dips, there exists a difference between the two voltages
V1 and V2. During faults, if V1 is greater than V2, RSC inner control loop and speed reference changes from
Wλs to W1
s. else in another case, with V2 greater than V1, the speed reference varies from Wλs to 0 or W1.
Under severe fault, where voltage dip will go beyond the rating of converters, the Wλs will be zero. Else it
will have certain value specified by flowchart and controller as shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4.
4. DESIGN OF PARAMETERS FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERY
The general layout of DFIG grid connected system is shown in Figure 5a. The design of BESS and
capacitor system is shown in Figure 5b [23]. To achieve a dc-bus voltage of 700 V through series connected
cells of 12 V, the battery bank should have (600/12) = 50 number of cells in series. Since the storage capacity
of this combination is 150 Ah and the total ampere hour required is (600 kW · h/600 V) = 1000 Ah, the
number of such sets required to be connected in parallel would be (1000 Ah/150 Ah) = 6.66 or 7 (selected).
Thus, the battery bank consists of six parallel-connected sets of 50 series connected battery cells. Thevenin’s
model is used to describe the energy storage of the battery in which the parallel combination of capacitance
(Cb) and resistance (Rb) in series with internal resistance (Rin) and an ideal voltage source of voltage 700 V
are used for modelling the battery in which the equivalent capacitance Cb is given as [23]. The value of the
BESS parameters is given in the Appendix.
(a)
(b)
Figure 5a. Grid connected DFIG showing the location of under-voltage fault, 5(b) BESS system
5. RESULT ANALYSIS
The system under study is shown in Figure 5a. The values are given in the Appendix. A DFIG
system is connected directly to grid with RSC and GSC helps in improving reactive power supply to grid.
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or sudden change in grid terminal voltage. The battery energy storage system (BESS) as in Figure 5b will
provide real and reactive power support to the converters to enhance the system operation during grid
disturbances. The system performance is studied under two cases. In the first case, efficacy of the system is
performance during faults is compared with the work in the literature [8]. A fault occurred at point of
common coupling or also called as grid terminal here in Figure 5a. This fault makes the grid and stator
voltage to drop to 70% from normal value between 0.15 and 0.5s. In the second case, a comparison is made
with out and with battery energy source which is placed between back to back converters of DFIG. In the
second case, a fault with resistance of 0.00125Ω between the three phases and ground at PCC occur during
0.8 to 1.2 seconds. The RSC control system is provided with proposed EFOC technique and the GSC control
as explained earlier. The need for additional reactive power requirement to maintain voltage profile during
faults is due to low power rating of converters.
The performance of an EFOC based test system in Figure 5 with battery energy storage system
controller (BESS) is considered for analysis. A total 0.4 seconds three phases to ground fault occurred at
PCC is considered for the study with fault resistance of 0.0015Ω. During fault, stator voltage decreased from
1pu to 0.6pu with a 40% decrease compared to normal during 0.1 to 0.5 seconds as shown in Figure 6(a). The
decrease in grid voltage during fault depends mainly on location, fault resistance and type of fault. The
efficacy of the proposed EFOC system can be compared with [9-13, 21 and 22] for the operation and reactive
power control during faults.
The stator current is nearly constant with 0.8pu at healthy conditions to 0.56pu during fault and
regains instantly without surges, its normal value once fault is cleared as in Figure 6(b). Due to unpredictable
surge current entering into the system, at fault instant, there will be current surges. But due to faster action of
controllers, this surge current is limited. The surges at these instants are due to sudden change in capacitor
voltage at the back to back converters and also due to a sudden inrush of fault current into the stator and rotor
windings. The rotor current in Figure 8(c) which is initially under steady state without fault is 0.70pu. There
is a very small surge current in the rotor at fault instant making the current to increase and then decreased and
maintained at 0.50pu from 0.1 to 0.3s. This current has a decrease in magnitude during fault, but no change in
rotor slip frequency because of the proposed control scheme. It reached its pre-fault value after the fault is
cleared. From the equations (15-18), with the change in the stator and rotor flux linkage value and rotor slip,
the rotor voltage increases slightly exponentially to certain value because of change in back emf of DFIG.
Because of this, based on Figure 3, it can be observed that rotor current, thereby stator current will decrease
with a proposed scheme instead of increasing during a fault. The rotor voltage is almost constant at 0.4pu
before, during and after fault is shown in Figure 8(d).
Case 1: Comparison for the work with 70% decrease in grid voltage
In this case, much severe fault occurred at PCC near grid, which makes the grid voltage decreased to
0.3pu from 1pu during 0.1 to 0.5s. This decrease is 70% for stator voltage compared to rated voltage under
healthy conditions as shown in Figure 6 (a). Because of this fault, the stator and rotor current surges are
produced at the instant of fault at 0.1s. After 0.012s, these currents decreased and reached a smaller and safe
value with the proposed technique. The stator current in Figure 6(b) which is initially 0.80pu before fault,
reaches to 0.4pu during fault between 0.1 and 0.3s. A surge current of magnitude 1.5pu is produced at fault
instant 0.1s and lasts for one cycle. Compared to the work in literature [8,26], the offset DC components
(DCOC) in flux during fault are minimised even with severe fault with a fault resistance of 0.00125Ω. The
decrease in DC offsets current oscillations, limiting surge currents, maintaining current waveform, all are
considered advantages with proposed EFOC. A steady state is reached and stator current maintained as in
pre-fault state. With EFOC technique, continuity of current, thereby power flow is improved. The overall
system stability and performance are improved. The results obtained with BESS which is placed between the
back to back converters across normal capacitor, helps to realize faster control action with sustained
oscillations and the EFOC limits the decoupled current control parameters. This BESS helps in sustaining the
system without much severe oscillations due to severe faults with the additional real power support from
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Figure 6a, waveforms snapshot from reference [3] and Figure 6b Performance of DFIG with 40% dip in grid
voltage with EFOC (a) stator voltage, (b) stator current, (c) rotor current, (d) rotor voltage, (e) actual
electromagnetic torque, (f) DC link voltage across capacitor at back to back converters (g) stator real and
reactive power, (h) rotor speed
The rotor current decreased from 0.70pu to 0.3pu during fault and regained to 0.7pu after the fault is
cleared as shown in Figure 6(c). The frequency of rotor waveform is constant during this fault. With proper
switching control action by RSC and GSC ensures the system sustaining capability by limiting the surge
current. The proposed RSC control technique with optimal speed reference control scheme, flux decay
control and improved demagnetisation control action makes the rotor current not to increase naturally during
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same converter rating, the rotor and stator current surge control is possible. Compared to work in [8] and
[26], the distortions in the rotor and stator parameters are very less with the proposed control scheme. The
rotor voltage is almost constant during and after the fault with the proposed control action. The rotor voltage
is also almost constant at 0.40pu as shown in Figure 6 (d).
The EMT at fault instant 0.1s has surged -1.4pu and reaches a steady value during fault to -0.1pu at
0.105s is shown in Figure 6(e). Later, when the fault is cleared, reaches a steady state value at 0.3s at fault
clearing as shown here. With the results in [8], the EMT oscillations after fault lasts for mare than 0.1s as
shown in Figure 11. With a proposed EFOC technique with BESS, the torque oscillations are eliminated and
stability was improved.
The DC voltage in Figure 6(f) at converters is maintained constant at 1.0 pu during and after fault
without oscillations. A sag up to 0pu volts at fault instant 0.1s in DC voltage dip is observed at fault instant,
due to unexpected occurance of fault. With fast acting control strategy, the voltage dip can get mitigated.
Even if fault exists for more than 0.5s time period, the system can sustain stability as DC capacitance voltage
is maintained constant at back-to-back converters. The DC capacitor rating at back-to-back converters will
also play a vital role in storing and delivering this excess current during the faults. The GSC circuit, helps in
controlling the decay in DC link voltage, thereby overall stability is improved.
The stator real and reactive powers are shown in Figure 6(g). Before the fault occurrence, the stator
real power is 0.98pu, during a fault, it reached to 0.13pu between 0.1 to 0.3s and regain to pre-fault value
once fault is cleared. Similarly, the reactive power changed from 0pu to 0.18pu during fault and reaches -
0.02pu after the fault is cleared. It can be observed that, there are no oscillations in real and reactive power
and hence there are no distortions in the voltage or current waveforms. The rotor speed is maintained nearly
constant during this type of severe fault. The rotor speed increases to 1.214pu as shown in Figure 6(h) and
reaches steady state once fault is cleared.
Case 2: Comparison of system performance without and with BESS for 70% decrease in grid voltage
The grid voltage and current waveforms without and with BESS is shown in Figure 7a (i) and (ii). In
this, grid waveforms are nearly constant with voltage dropping from 1pu to 0.45pu during fault. It again
regains to pre-fault voltage level once fault was cleared and system was restored. The current waveforms
without, sub-transient waveform is taking more time to settle without BESS than with BESS.
The stator 3ф voltage and current waveforms without and with BESS is shown in Figure 7b (i) and
(ii). In general without fault, the stator voltage and current are 1 per-unit (pu). When a three phase
symmetrical fault of 0.005Ω occur at point of common coupling (PCC), voltage dropped to 0.89pu without
BESS and current dropped to 0.55pu. With proposed EFOC technique, the drop in voltage and current are to
a smaller value compared to the reference [2, 4, 5 and 8]. For same system, with external DC supply using
(BESS) battery equivalent source, drop in voltage is controlled and maintained constant at 1.0pu. The stator
current remained nearly same as the system without BESS. The use of BESS helps in supplying additional
active and reactive power supply to the converters which helps in improving stator voltage profile during
faults. But the grid voltage declined from 1pu to 0.45pu, but still stator voltage and current are maintaining
better voltage profile of nearly 0.9pu and current of 0.55pu.
Figure 7a. (i) grid voltage and current without BESS

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Figure 7a. (ii) with BESS
Figure 7b. (i) stator voltage and current without BESS
Figure 7b. (ii) with BESS
Figure 7c. (i) rotor voltage and current without BESS

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Figure 7c. (ii) with BESS
Figure 7d. (i) Generator parameters without BESS
Figure 7d. (ii) with BESS
Figure 7. Stator, rotor winding and grid voltage and current waveforms and machine parameters when a
symmetrical fault occurs between 0.8-1.2s with (i) without BESS and (ii) with BESS
The Figure 7c (i) and (ii) show the rotor voltage and current waveforms without and with BESS and
EFOC based control strategy. Before fault, rotor voltage and current are at 1pu and 0.25pu. When fault
occurred at 0.8s, the rotor voltage decreased to 0.9pu and current with small distortions at the beginning
decreased to 0.2pu with EFOC. The improvement in current profile during faults and maintaining current and
voltage profile is due to the control in flux decay as explained in section 3.2. Compared to the output
waveforms from literature [2, 3, 4 and 5], the proposed strategy helps in not only improving rotor and stator
current profile and also mitigating distortion [2, 3 and 5] in current waveforms during faults. The rotor
waveform with BESS is shown in Figure 7c (ii). The voltage profile is maintained constant during and after
fault just like system in pre-fault state. The rotor current waveforms are having much lesser distortions and
settles in settles in less than 2 cycles during fault as without BESS with 3 cycles (Blue phase current
waveform).
The DFIG converters common DC link voltage, output rotor speed and electromagnetic torque
without BESS and with BESS for proposed strategy is shown in Figure 7d (i) and (ii). With capacitor as DC

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source as in Figure 7d (i), the voltage decreased from 620 volts to 480V during 0.8 to 1.2 seconds and
increased to 720V at 1.5s and slowly decreased and maintained to 620V from 1.8s. This sudden increase in
DC link voltage is due to sudden clearance of fault and rapid increase in PCC voltage. In general, grid system
is much stronger than a DFIG or a single power plant based system. The sudden change in overall impedance
of the system after fault, change in direction of current flow in RSC current and sudden decrease in reactive
power requirement make the DC link voltage to increase and then to maintain as before fault. With [2, 3], the
DC link voltage increased to a much higher value than our proposed system. The rotor speed remained nearly
constant during fault with EFOC. The rotor speed changed from 1.16pu to 1.17 during fault and reaches to
1.58pu at 1.5s and reaches 1.16 and maintained constant without BESS based system. With penetrations in
wind turbine, the DFIG system will have small fluctuations in electromagnetic torque (EMT) during steady
state. The EMT decreased from 1pu in magnitude to -0.4pu during fault and regained to -1pu when fault
cleared at 1.2pu.
6. CONCLUSION
A conventional DFIG wind turbine system connected to the grid was considered in the analysis. A
three phase fault is imagined to occur at PCC between 0.1 and 0.3 seconds, making the grid voltage to
decrease to 30% and 70% compared to normal. With the proposed EFOC technique, rotor current during fault
is maintained at certain value without increasing or getting zero. The stator and rotor current dip is observed
with proposed control scheme. The waveforms are sinusoidal without DC offset components and the system
is maintained synchronism at 70% dip in the voltage. The reduction in torque is observed at 70% dip in grid
voltage, but regained to normal value without oscillations after the fault is cleared. The rotor speed is
constant without much swell during severe fault with the proposed control scheme. The overall secured
operation can be guaranteed during and the fault with proposed EFOC technique. The torque ruipple and
surges in current waveform possible with the help of a fuzzy controller, as it is a fatsre device than a
conventional PI controller.The post fault recovery in machine voltage and current waveforms have taken
place without any surges.
The wind energy conversion system with good LVRT technique will ensure dynamic stability by
complying with modern wind grid codes. A DFIG wind turbine system to limit transient over currents in
rotor circuit is achieved by using advanced EFOC algorithmic technique. With proposed technique, usage of
crowbar circuit can be eliminated. A comparison is made without and with an external BESS with a
symmetrical fault occurring at PCC. With proposed technique, the overall dynamic response of the system is
improved by suppressing not only fault transient but also post fault transients. This methodology enhances
the lethargic system to reach its steady state at an improved rate, thus providing good quality as well as
reliable power with the aid of BESS.
The effectiveness of the proposed technique analyses the comparison between without and with
BESS for DC link capacitor voltage. The rotor speed and electromagnetic torque during and after three phase
symmetrical faults were improved to a better level after introducing BESS. It is observed that with grid
voltage drop to 50%, the stator and rotor voltages are still maintaining at 80% dip during fault. It is
maintaining nearly constant voltage profile with BESS. The stator and rotor current waveforms preserve
seamless during the fault without and with BESS. There is a very small dip in the generator winding currents
during fault and reached steady state immediately after the fault was relieved. The capacitor voltage dip is
also from 620 to 480V during fault with EFOC technique. The rotor speed in both cases maintained nearly
constant between 1.16 to 1.18pu. The EMT is not getting zero, but is maintained at 0.4pu magnitude during
fault. The ripples in EMT were reduced with BESS than capacitor alone system. The overall system
performance during severe symmetrical fault can be improved using EFOC technique and further
improvement can be made if BESS is incorporated in the DC link of the converters.
Appendix
The parameters of DFIG used in simulation are,
Rated Power = 1.5MW, Rated Voltage = 690V, Stator Resistance Rs = 0.0049pu, rotor Resistance
Rr = 0.0049pu, Stator Leakage Inductance Lls = 0.093pu, Rotor Leakage inductance Llr1 = 0.1pu, Inertia
constant = 4.54pu, Number of poles = 4, Mutual Inductance Lm = 3.39 pu, DC link Voltage = 415V, Dc
link capacitance = 0.2F, Wind speed = 14 m/sec.
Grid Voltage = 25 KV, Grid frequency = 60 Hz, Grid side Filter: Rfg = 0.3Ω, Lfg = 0.6nH, Rotor
side filter: Rfr = 0.3mΩ, Lfr = 0.6nH, Battery Specifications: Cb = 180000 F, Rb = 10 kΩ, Rin = 0.2 Ω,
Vocmax = 620 V, Vocmin = 500 V, Storage = 600 kW · h, L = 1 mH.

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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
D.V.N. Ananth was born in Visakhapatnam, India on 20th August 1984. He received B.Tech
Electrical Engineering from Raghu Engineering College, Visakhapatnam and M.Tech from
Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology, Hyderabad, India. He is working as an Assistant
Professor in VITAM College of Engineering in Electrical Department since December 2010. He
is currently working towards his PhD degree from GITAM University, Visakhapatnam His
favorite topics include Renewable energy resources, DFIG, industrial drives, power systems,
power electronics, control systems, HVDC and Reactive power compensation techniques. His
contact address is nagaananth@gmail.com
Dr. G.V. Nagesh Kumar was born in Visakhapatnam, India in 1977. He graduated College of
Engineering, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Visakhapatnam, India, Masters
Degree from the College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He received his
Doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He is presently
working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
GITAM University, Visakhapatnam. His researches interests include gas insulated substations,
fuzzy logic and neural network applications, distributed generation, Partial Discharge Studies
and Bearingless drives. He has published 102 research papers in national and international
conferences and journals. He received “Sastra Award”, “Best Paper Award” and “Best
Researcher Award”. He is a member of various societies, ISTE, IEEE, IE and System Society of
India. He is also a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation,
Power Systems and a member on Board of several conferences and journals.

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