DC power systems have a constant DC-link voltage, as well as the advantages such as high stability, high efficiency, small size and light weight; therefore, they are widely used in stand-alone power systems, e.g. the power systems in aircrafts and automobiles, isolated wind power generation systems, etc. Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators (PMSGs) possess the advantages including high power density, high efficiency, and high control precision, and have obtained great attention and have been widely used in military, inductry, and daily life. Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) rectifier has been one of the main power conversion topologies thanks to its full controllability. The key point in the dissertation is to study the DC power system consisting of a PMSG to be the main power input device and a PWM rectifier to be the main power conversion topology. The objective of control is to output a constant DC-link voltage in a wide PMSG speed range. Since the PM-excited flux linkage is constant, when the PMSG is working at a high speed, field-weakening is needed to stabilize the stator voltage, further to stabilize the DC-link voltage. Hybrid excitation may be used to realize the field-weakening, but it has complex structure; no auxiliary devices are needed in the field regulation with the armature current, and can be easily realized with the PWM recifier and field-regulation control strategies. In this dissertation, the typical applications of the DC power systems are first introduced, with a comprehensive analysis and elaboration on the relevant research throughout the world. The research work is focused on the DC power system and its stabilization control, which is composed of a PMSG and a PWM rectifier. The involved research content in this dissertation includes the following aspects: 1. DC power system design with a wide-speed-range PMSGAs for the common DC power systems, PMSG with high power density, high efficiency is selected to the system power input device, usually with a variable-speed prime mover. The PWM rectifier with fully controlled switches is chosen to be the power conversion topology, which converts the AC power generated by PMSG into DC power, and supplies the DC load after the DC filter. The matching between the system requirements and the generator parameters are determined. Through finite-element analysis (FEA), a PMSG with strong field-weakening ability and suitable for wide-speed-range operation has been designed and manufactured, and the system test bench has been built based on dSPACE. 2. Study, analysis, optimization and experimental verification of the traditional control strategiesAccording to the PMSG designed in part 1, the DC-link model has been built, as well as the control model of the traditional control strategies, e.g. field-oriented control (FOC), direct torque control (DTC), and the effectiveness of the DC-link voltage stabilization control has been verified in a wide speed range. The theory of active damping has been proposed and analyzed, and has been utilized in the DC-link voltage control. When the load on the DC-link changes, the dynamic response of the DC-link voltage has been greatly accelerated, and it recovers quickly to its reference value. In the meantime, the performance influence of the prime mover speed on the actual system test bench should be considered. Finally, the performance of FOC and DTC has been compared and analyzed. 3. Analysis and experimental verification of the direct voltage control (DVC), and the comparative study of all the studied control strategiesThe derivation process of DVC has been theoretically analyzed: the inner current loops in FOC have been eliminated to obtain the direct voltage field-oriented control (DVFOC); the reference value of d-axis voltage in DVFOC has been replaced by the product of the stator voltage calculated by the speed and the load condition, and the sine value of load angle generated by the DC-link voltage PI controller, in order to form the DVC-1. Further, the DC-link voltage PI controller directly outputs the reference value of load angle and it becomes DVC-2. Finally, the comparative study has been carried out among all the studied control strategies. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur et technologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This research work focuses on the reactive power compensation of the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PSG) in wind power plants. PSG feeds a fixed voltage dc grid through a rectifier bridge. In variable speed operation, the PSG will be able to build torque only in small speed range. This is due to the fixed magnet of the PSG. External reactive power compensation provides an attractive solution to overcome this problem. Different reactive power compensation configurations were examined. Statics synchronous series compensation and a shunt passive filter were chosen as a compensation method. Simulation and implementation of small wind power plant were performed. The wind power plant consists of the synchronous generator, inverter, rectifier, coupling transformers and shunt passive filter. The experimental results agree to the proposed theory and simulation results. / Der Schwerpunkt meiner Promotion ist die Blindleistungskompensation bei einem permanenterregten Synchrongenerator. Der Synchrongenerator speist das Gleichsspannungsnetz über ein Gleichrichter. In der Drehzahlvariablen Betriebsverhalten können Nachteile auftreten. Die Folge ist, dass bei konstanter Gleichspannung und fester Erregung durch die Permanenterregung nur ein sehr kleiner Drehzahlbereich mit vernünftiger Drehmomentausbeute bedienbar ist. Ein möglicher Ausweg wäre eine variable Kompensationsspannung. Verschiedene Kompensationsverfahren wurden untersucht. Ein Series Active Filter und ein Shunt Passive-Filter wurden als Blindleistungskompensation gewählt. Im Rahmen meiner Dissertation beschäftige ich mich mit dem Aufbau und der Simulation einer Windkraftanlage. Diese besteht aus einem permanenterregten Synchrongenerator, einem Wechselrichrter, einem Gleichrichter, drei Transformatoren und einem passiven Filter. Das Versuchsergebnis zeigt, dass die Theorie mit der Simulation übereinstimmt.

This thesis is a study on an unconventional slow speed direct drive permanent magnet (PM) generator. Unlike a standard permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) which has the copper coils wound around iron teeth, the work in this thesis will present a generator where the copper coils are directly mounted on the stator which eliminates the slots and teeth in the generator. By having a slotless design it is possible to eliminate cogging torque, iron losses in teeth and achieve a lightweight design. These characteristics can prove useful when developing generators for an application such as wind turbines, or more specifically vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in remote areas where weight and serviceability is of concern. This thesis consists of two main parts where the main focus was on the design and simulation of slotless generators. The second part of the thesis was to investigate an available slotless axial flux machine. For the simulations, three different models were created in 2D using CAD software. Two of the models were double-rotor slotless generators and one was a single rotor variant. The electromagnetic properties of these models were analysed using FEMM and COMSOL. The results showed that the double rotor variant with the smaller magnets were more favourable considering the price of magnets and no iron core losses. The experimental results of the axial flux machine gave insight into the construction of commercially available axial slotless generators which could be used to further analyse these types of machines.

Bei eigengekühlten Elektromaschinen in Außenläuferbauweise resultiert aus der schwierigeren Abführung der Statorverluste üblicherweise eine Reduktion der elektromagnetischen Ausnutzung. Im Beitrag wird am Beispiel eines permanentmagnetisch erregten Synchrongenerators für eine Kleinwindenergieanlage das Verfahren der intensivierten Statorrohrinnenkühlung unter Nutzung der Windströmung durch einen im Statorrohr angeordneten Kühlkörper diskutiert. Neben der elektromagnetischen und strömungsmechanischen bzw. thermischen Modellierung wird die experimentelle Trennung der Einzelverluste vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Ausnutzung der Maschine durch die intensivierten Statorrohrinnenkühlung um ca. 40 % gesteigert werden kann. / For self-ventilated electrical machines in outer rotor design, the difficult dissipation of stator losses usually results in a reduction of the electromagnetic utilization. Based on an example of a permanent magnet synchronous generator for a small wind turbine, the method of intensified inner stator tube cooling using the wind flow through a heat sink arranged in the stator tube is discussed in the article. In addition to the electromagnetic and fluid mechanical as well as thermal modeling, the experimental separation of the losses is presented. It is shown that the utilization of the machine can be increased by approx. 40 % by means of the intensified internal cooling of the stator tube.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This Thesis proposes sensorless vector control schemes that combine designed observers in the discrete-time domain to estimate the rotor position and speed for a permanent magnet synchronous generator of non-salient poles. Two control schemes are proposed. The first scheme is based on a discrete sliding mode current observer in series with an adaptive electromotive force observer. Then, the sliding conditions that assure the sliding motion around the sliding surface are derived to ensure the stability of the current observer as well as an innovative design procedure is proposed for it. Moreover, the electromotive force observer is designed using Lyapunov s Discrete Direct Method, which provides the estimated rotor position and speed. The second scheme extends the developed methodology for the former, considering the parametric uncertainties and eliminating the high frequency components of chattering. The second scheme uses a discrete sliding mode current observer as in the first scheme. However, the electromotive force observer is replaced by a phase-locked loop in series with a discrete sliding mode robust differentiator, which follows the proposed methodology for the discrete sliding mode current observer. Experimental results validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate the performance of the proposed control schemes considering a small scale wind energy conversion system. In addition, proposed schemes are compared with others of the literature. It should be noticed that the whole approach is carried out in discrete time domain making it suitable for a microcontroller or digital signal processor implementation. / Esta Tese propõe esquemas de controle vetorial sem sensores mecânicos de posição e de velocidade que combinam observadores projetados no domínio de tempo discreto para estimar essas variáveis para um gerador síncrono a ímãs permanentes de polos não salientes. Dois esquemas de controle são propostos. O primeiro esquema baseiase em um observador de corrente por modos deslizantes discretos em série com um observador adaptativo de força eletromotriz. Então, as condições de deslizamento que asseguram os modos deslizantes em torno da superfície de deslizamento são estabelecidas no domínio de tempo discreto para garantir a estabilidade do observador de corrente e um inovador procedimento de projeto para ele é proposto. Em seguida, o observador de força eletromotriz é projetado usando o método direto de Lyapunov discreto, que fornece a posição e a velocidade rotóricas estimadas. O segundo esquema estende a metodologia desenvolvida para o primeiro, considerando as incertezas paramétricas bem como eliminando as componentes de alta frequência de chattering. O segundo esquema usa um observador de corrente por modos deslizantes discretos como o primeiro. Entretanto, o observador de força eletromotriz é substituído por um retentor de fase em série com um diferenciador robusto por modos deslizantes discretos, que segue a metodologia proposta para o observador de corrente. Resultados experimentais validam a análise teórica desenvolvida e demonstram o desempenho dos esquemas de controle propostos considerando um sistema de conversão de energia eólica de pequeno porte. Além disso, os esquemas propostos são comparados com outros da literatura. Ressalta-se que a toda abordagem é desenvolvida no domínio de tempo discreto tornando-a apta para uma implementação em microcontroladores e em processadores digitais de sinais.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:56:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ErnanoAJ_DISSERT.pdf: 1903927 bytes, checksum: 0bb4c95cc8f08d85b6af9c71ab44494b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-11 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / Currently, there are several power converter topologies applied to wind power generation. The converters allow the use of wind turbines operating at variable speed, enabling better use of wind forces. The high performance of the converters is being increasingly demanded, mainly because of the increase in the power generation capacity by wind turbines, which gave rise to various converter topologies, such as parallel or multilevel converters. The use of converters allow effective control of the power injected into the grid, either partially, for the case using partial converter, or total control for the case of using full converter. The back-to-back converter is one of the most used topologies in the market today, due to its simple structure, with few components, contributing to robust and reliable performance. In this work, is presented the implementation of a wind cogeneration system using a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) associated with a back-to-back power converter is proposed, in order to inject active power in an electric power system. The control strategy of the active power delivered to the grid by cogeneration is based on the philosophy of indirect control / Existem diversas topologias de conversores de pot?ncia aplicadas a sistemas de gera??o de energia e?lica. Os conversores permitem a gera??o de energia com turbinas e?licas em condi??es de velocidade vari?vel do vento, possibilitando um aproveitamento de forma mais eficaz das for?as do vento. A utiliza??o dos conversores possibilita o controle efetivo da pot?ncia injetada na rede, seja de maneira parcial, no caso de utiliza??o de conversores parciais, ou controle total, no caso de utiliza??o de conversores completos. O alto desempenho dos conversores vem sendo cada vez mais necess?rio, principalmente quando se busca a eleva??o da capacidade de gera??o de pot?ncia por parte das turbinas e?licas, o que fez surgir diversas novas topologias de conversores, sejam conversores paralelos ou multin?veis. O conversor na configura??o back-to-back ? um dos mais utilizados no mercado atualmente, devido ? sua estrutura simples, com poucos componentes, contribuindo assim para um desempenho robusto e confi?vel. Neste trabalho, apresenta-se a implementa??o de um sistema de cogera??o e?lica utilizando um gerador s?ncrono a ?m? permanente (PMSG) associado a um conversor de pot?ncia na topologia back-to-back, de maneira a injetar pot?ncia ativa em um sistema el?trico de pot?ncia. A estrat?gia do controle da pot?ncia ativa fornecida pela cogera??o ? rede el?trica ? baseada na filosofia do controle indireto

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T16:54:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Jose Gomes de Matos.pdf: 8310310 bytes, checksum: b4d88d65be5edbb4f214f9dd09ed8f3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-31 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work proposes a new strategy to control the generated power in an alternating current autonomous microgrid that has distributed generators and battery banks. There are no restrictions regarding the type of generator to be connected, however in this particular study the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is analyzed by considering that the power source is a wind turbine coupled to a permanent magnet synchronous generator. The microgrid analyzed consists of at least one bidirectional electronic converter powered by a battery bank, which has the function of forming the microgrid; an electronic converter connected to a wind turbine generator, which operates as a power supplier to the microgrid; loads, and other peripheral systems of control and maneuver. The main objective of the proposed strategy is to maintain the terminal voltages of battery banks under control and below its upper limit, even when momentarily the power demanded by the loads connected to the microgrid is less than the power sources generation capacity. The proposed strategy controls the terminal voltage of the battery banks, controlling the power output that comes from the generators. This is done without the use of dump loads or any physical communication between the electronic converters connected to the battery banks and the electronic converters connected to the generators. A modified droop control technique, based on the grid frequency, is used to inform to the power generator electronic converters on the amount of energy they need to generate in order to maintain the state of charge of the battery banks below their limits. The work also presents the methodology to design and tuning the controllers of the associated variables of the generation system. This includes the voltage and frequency grid, the active and reactive power generated by the generators, the DC bus voltages in all electronic power converters and the terminal voltage of the battery banks. All controllers are designed in the discrete domain. A strategy to decouple the effects of the input disturbances is incorporated, into each controller. Special attention is given to the grid voltage controller due the fact that the effect of the load current disturbance is very significant for the grid power quality. Issues x related to the operation of the wind turbine on its maximum power point are also addressed in the control of the power electronic converter connected to the generator. The control strategy proposed in this study is validated through experimental results obtained using a microgrid prototype of 15 kW rated power. / Este trabalho propõe uma nova estratégia para controle da potência gerada em uma microrrede isolada, que opera em corrente alternada e que dispõe de geradores e bancos de baterias distribuídos ao longo da mesma. Embora não haja restrições quanto ao tipo de gerador a ser conectado à microrrede, neste estudo a aplicabilidade da estratégia proposta é analisada considerando a fonte de potência como sendo uma turbina eólica acoplada a um gerador síncrono a imãs permanentes. A microrrede estudada é composta de um conversor eletrônico bidirecional, alimentado por um banco de baterias, que tem a função de formar a microrrede; um conversor eletrônico ligado ao gerador da turbina eólica e que funciona como alimentador da microrrede; além das cargas e demais sistemas periféricos de controle e manobra. O principal objetivo dessa estratégia é controlar a tensão terminal dos bancos de baterias abaixo de um determinado valor limite, mesmo quando momentaneamente a potência demandada pela carga conectada à microrrede seja inferior à capacidade de geração das fontes de potência. A estratégia proposta controla a tensão dos bancos de baterias, controlando a energia gerada que vem dos geradores. Isto é feito sem a utilização de carga auxiliar para consumir o excesso de energia e sem comunicação física entre os conversores eletrônicos dos bancos de baterias e os conversores eletrônicos conectados aos geradores. Uma técnica de controle droop modificada, com base na frequência da microrrede, é usada para informar aos conversores dos geradores sobre a quantidade de energia que eles estão liberados para gerar, a fim de manter a tensão dos bancos de baterias abaixo dos seus valores limites. O trabalho ainda apresenta as sistemáticas de projeto e sintonia dos controladores das variáveis associadas com o sistema de geração. Isso compreende o controle da tensão e da frequência da microrrede, o controle das tensões nos barramentos de corrente contínua de todos os conversores eletrônicos de potência e o controle da tensão terminal dos bancos de baterias. Todos os controladores são projetados no domínio discreto. Uma estratégia de desacoplamento dos efeitos das entradas de perturbações é incorporada a cada controlador. Nesse enfoque, é dada atenção especial ao controlador de tensão da microrrede, cujo efeito da viii perturbação da corrente da carga é muito significativo para a qualidade de energia do sistema de geração. As questões relativas à maximização do aproveitamento energético das fontes renováveis são contempladas no controle do conversor da turbina eólica. A estratégia de controle proposta neste trabalho é validada a partir de resultados experimentais obtidos com um protótipo de microrrede de potência nominal 15 kw.

Cieľom tejto práce bolo navrhnúť alternatívny zdroj energie pre riadiacu jednotku, ktorú obsahujú komponenty traťového zabezpečovacieho zariadenia v rámci európskeho systému riadenia železničnej dopravy. V porovnaní s predchádzajúcimi harvestormi bola vďaka použitiu lineárneho elektrického generátora eliminovaná mechanická väzba, ako napr. prevodovka. To by malo zvýšiť životnosť a spoľahlivosť zariadenia. S pomocou analógie magnetických obvodov a softvéru využívajúceho metódu konečných prvkov FEMM a Ansys Maxwell, boli navrhnuté tri rôzne synchrónne generátory s permanentnými magnetmi. Simulácia v prostredí Matlab Simulink dokázala, že výsledný návrh generátora je schopný dodávať priemerný výkon 5 W počas prechodu vlaku zo stlačenia pražca väčšieho ako 2 mm.

A major portion of this thesis is devoted to the Whisper 200 wind turbine model in Matlab-Simulink environment. The turbine is installed at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, FEEC BUT. In the model, several types of simulations can be executed. On that basis, the power curve and mathematical relationships between wind speed and other physical quantities, such as RPM, electic current, and voltage, were obtained. Comparisons of the simulations' results with measurement data illustrate adequate agreement, but limitations of the model remain significant, as is exhaustively documented and commented upon in the thesis. As a partial advancement towards elimination of the model's deficiencies, conditions for substantial performance improvements of the dynamic simulation have been elaborately derived.