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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In this research, a Split-Shaft Wind Energy Conversion System (SS-WECS) is investigated to improve the performance and cost of the system and reduce the wind power uncertainty influences on the power grid. This system utilizes a lightweight Hydraulic Transmission System (HTS) instead of the traditional gearbox and uses a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) instead of a synchronous generator. This type of wind turbine provides several benefits, including decoupling the shaft speed controls at the turbine and the generator. Hence, maintaining the generator’s frequency and seeking maximum power point can be accomplished independently. The frequency control relies on the mechanical torque adjustment on the hydraulic motor that is coupled with the generator. This research provides modeling of an SS-WECS to show its dependence on mechanical torque and a control technique to realize the mechanical torque adjustments utilizing a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG). To this end, a vector control technique is employed, and the generator electrical torque is controlled to adjust the frequency while the wind turbine dynamics influence the system operation. The results demonstrate that the generator’s frequency is maintained under any wind speed experienced at the turbine. Next, to reduce the size of power converters required for controlling DFIG, this research introduces a control technique that allows achieving MPPT in a narrow window of generator speed in an SS-WECS. Consequently, the size of the power converters is reduced significantly. The proposed configuration is investigated by analytical calculations and simulations to demonstrate the reduced size of the converter and dynamic performance of the power generation. Furthermore, a new configuration is proposed to eliminate the Grid- Side Converter (GSC). This configuration employs only a reduced-size Rotor-Side Converter (RSC) in tandem with a supercapacitor. This is accomplished by employing the hydraulic transmission system (HTS) as a continuously variable and shaft decoupling transmission unit. In this configuration, the speed of the DFIG is controlled by the RSC to regulate the supercapacitor voltage without GSC. The proposed system is investigated and simulated in MATLAB Simulink at various wind speeds to validate the results. Next, to reduce the wind power uncertainty, this research introduces an SS-WECS where the system’s inertia is adjusted to store the energy. Accordingly, a flywheel is mechanically coupled with the rotor of the DFIG. Employing the HTS in such a configuration allows the turbine controller to track the point of maximum power (MPPT) while the generator controller can adjust the generator speed. As a result, the flywheel, which is directly connected to the shaft of the generator, can be charged and discharged by controlling the generator speed. In this process, the flywheel energy can be used to modify the electric power generation of the generator on-demand. This improves the quality of injected power to the grid. Furthermore, the structure of the flywheel energy storage is simplified by removing its dedicated motor/generator and the power electronics driver. Two separate supervisory controllers are developed using fuzzy logic regulators to generate a real-time output power reference. Furthermore, small-signal models are developed to analyze and improve the MPPT controller. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of such a system and its improved quality of power generation. Next, an integrated Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) is developed to support the new DFIG excitation system in the SS-WECS. The goal is to improve the power quality while significantly reducing the generator excitation power rating and component counts. Therefore, the rotor excitation circuit is modified to add the storage to its DC link directly. In this configuration, the output power fluctuation is attenuated solely by utilizing the RSC, making it self-sufficient from the grid connection. The storage characteristics are identified based on several system design parameters, including the system inertia, inverter capacity, and energy storage capacity. The obtained power generation characteristics suggest an energy storage system as a mix of fast-acting types and a high energy capacity with moderate acting time. Then, a feedback controller is designed to maintain the charge in the storage within the required limits. Additionally, an adaptive model-predictive controller is developed to reduce power generation fluctuations. The proposed system is investigated and simulated in MATLAB Simulink at various wind speeds to validate the results and demonstrate the system’s dynamic performance. It is shown that the system’s inertia is critical to damping the high-frequency oscillations of the wind power fluctuations. Then, an optimization approach using the Response Surface Method (RSM) is conducted to minimize the annualized cost of the Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS); consisting of a flywheel, supercapacitor, and battery. The goal is to smooth out the output power fluctuations by the optimal size of the HESS. Thus, a 1.5 MW hydraulic wind turbine is simulated, and the HESS is configured and optimized. The direct connection of the flywheel allows reaching a suitable level of smoothness at a reasonable cost. The proposed configuration is compared with the conventional storage, and the results demonstrate that the proposed integrated HESS can decrease the annualized storage cost by 71 %. Finally, this research investigates the effects of the reduced-size RSC on the Low Voltage Ride Through (LVRT) capabilities required from all wind turbines. One of the significant achievements of an SS-WECS is the reduced size excitation circuit. The grid side converter is eliminated, and the size of the rotor side converter (RSC) can be safely reduced to a fraction of a full-size excitation. Therefore, this low-power-rated converter operates at low voltage and handles the regular operation well. However, the fault conditions may expose conditions on the converter and push it to its limits. Therefore, four different protection circuits are employed, and their effects are investigated and compared to evaluate their performance. These four protection circuits include the active crowbar, active crowbar along a resistorinductor circuit (C-RL), series dynamic resistor (SDR), and new-bridge fault current limiter (NBFCL). The wind turbine controllers are also adapted to reduce the impact of the fault on the power electronic converters. One of the effective methods is to store the excess energy in the generator’s rotor. Finally, the proposed LVRT strategies are simulated in MATLAB Simulink to validate the results and demonstrate their effectiveness and functionality.

Orientador: Dr. Alfeu J. Sguarezi Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica, 2014. / Devido as preocupações com a redu¸c¿ao do uso dos recursos f'osseis e das emiss¿oes de CO2 ocasionadas pelos mesmos, o interesse no uso de energias renov 'aveis aumentou, sendo uma destas fontes a energia e'olica. O Gerador de Indu¸c¿ao de Rotor Bobinado (GIRB) tem demonstrado ser uma ferramenta capaz de otimizar o uso da energia e'olica, dada a sua alta efici¿encia, rentabilidade e robustez mec¿anica, ainda assim 'e necess'ario superar os numerosos desafios que est¿ao presentes nesta tecnologia, tais como qualidade da pot¿encia, estabilidade da rede, entre outros. O objetivo desta pesquisa se concentra no estudo de t'ecnicas de controle de pot¿encia fornecida pelo GIRB aplicado a sistemas de gera¸c¿ao e'olica. No presente caso, o sistema de gera¸c¿ao 'e composto por um GIRB com seu estator conectado diretamente 'a rede e seu rotor 'e conectado 'a rede atrav'es de um conversor bidirecional. Prop¿oe-se estudar o m'etodo de controle direto de torque (CDT) com emprego de controladores PI e por modos deslizantes (SMC) mais PI. O controle direto de torque 'e uma t'ecnica de alto desempenho din¿amico e possibilita o controle independente do torque e fluxo do gerador o que possibilitar'a o controle das pot¿encias ativa e reativa do GIRB. Da mesma forma, 'e estudado o conversor para o processamento da energia gerada. As simula¸c¿oes baseadas em modelos matem'aticos destes m'etodos de controle foram revistos, analisados e comparados com as simula¸c¿oes de textos de refer¿encia. Resultados experimentais obtidos em uma bancada validaram o prot'otipo proposto. / Due to concerns about reducing the use of fossil resources and the CO2 emissions caused by them, interest in the use of renewable energy increased, one of these sources is wind energy. The Wound Rotor Induction Generator (WRIG) has been proved to be a tool to optimize the use of wind energy, given its high efficiency, profitability and mechanical robustness, it is still necessary to overcome the many challenges that are present in this technology, such as power quality, grid stability, among others. This research focuses on the study of control techniques for power supply by WRIG applied to wind generation systems. In this case, the generation system consists of a stator WRIG is connected directly to the electrical network and its rotor too, but via a bidirectional converter. It is proposed to study the method of direct torque control (DTC) with the use of PI and sliding mode controllers (SMC) more PI. The direct torque control is a technique of high dynamic performance and enables independent control of torque and flux generator, which will enable the control of active and reactive power ofWRIG. Likewise, it is studied the converter for processing the generated power. The simulations based on mathematical models of these control methods were reviewed , analyzed and compared with simulations of reference texts . Experimental results obtained on a bench validated the proposed prototype.

Bien que le gouvernement cambodgien s’efforce d’augmenter sa production d’électricité pour répondre à sa demande en énergie, il reste toujours dépendant de réseau électrique existant ou de l’extension du réseau dont le coût d’investissement initial est élevé. La solution temporelle consiste à employer un système de production d'énergie distribué qui présente un coût de cycle de vie inférieur et introduit une diversité de technologies pour répondre aux applications. Minimiser les impacts environnementaux représente un objectif majeur du développement durable, compte tenu de l'épuisement des ressources et des capacités d'adaptation limitées de l'environnement. Les ressources en énergies renouvelables ont été bien comprises comme les solutions pour alimenter le développement rural et réduire les impacts environnementaux de la production d’énergie. Suivant les progrès technologiques et de la demande croissante des consommateurs, de grande quantité de déchets électriques et électroniques ont entraîné de graves conséquences pour l’environnement. Les stratégies actuelles reposent principalement sur les techniques classiques de collecte et de traitement des déchets. Ce travail de thèse proposait une solution de réutilisation des composants électroniques dans un système d'énergie renouvelable hybride isolé pour la solution d'électrification pour la zone rurale. Une configuration choisie pour le système proposé est un système de génération hybride solaire-hydroélectrique, car les ressources solaires et hydrauliques sont abondantes dans les zones rurales du Cambodge. Les composants qui sont réutilisés dans la solution comprennent des blocs d’alimentation d’un PC (PSU) pour la partie solaire, des alimentations sans interruption (UPS) et des machines asynchrone triphasées pour la partie hydraulique. Les batteries automobiles usagées sont utilisées pour le stockage d’énergie. Ce travail de thèse aborde dans une première partie l’évaluation des impacts environnementaux de la solution de réutilisation proposée. Cette étude repose sur la méthodologie de l’Analyse du Cycle de Vie (ACV) qui compare les impacts du cycle de vie de la solution proposée à ceux d’une solution conventionnelle. La deuxième partie de ce travail traite des aspects technologiques de la solution de réutilisation, à la fois en théorie et en expérimentation. La première partie de cet aspect concerne la reconversion des blocs d’alimentations usagées. Le bloc d'alimentation, qui contient généralement l'un des quelques types de convertisseurs DC-DC isolés, est réutilisé comme contrôleur de charge, qui est le composant principal du système de générateur photovoltaïque. La dernière partie de cette thèse décrit une nouvelle configuration de générateur basé sur des moteurs asynchrone triphasés. Le générateur monophasé proposé basé sur une machine triphasée est une version modifiée d'une topologie à base de l’onduleur où deux enroulements sont alimentés séparément par sources d'excitation, et l'autre enroulement est connecté à la charge. Une nouvelle modélisation est proposée. Les résultats de simulation sont comparés aux résultats expérimentaux en alimentation sinus. La comparaison met en évidence une supériorité de la nouvelle configuration par rapport à l'ancienne en termes de rendement et de minimisation de pulsations de couple / While the Cambodia’s government is making effort to increase electricity production for its energy demand, it still remains dependent on the existing or the expansion of the centralized grid lines which have high initial investment cost. The temporally solution is to employ a distributed energy generation system which has lower life cycle cost and provides a diversity of technologies to meet the desired applications. Minimizing environmental impacts represents a major objective of sustainable development considering resources depletion and the limited capabilities of the environment to adapt. The potential of renewable energy resources has been well understood as the solutions to power rural development and to reduce the environmental impacts of energy generation. Due to advance in technologies and increasing consumer demands, there has been a vast amount of electrical and electronic waste which introduces severe impacts on the environment. The current strategies mainly rely on conventional waste collection and processing techniques for material recovery. This thesis proposed a solution of reusing discarded components in an isolated hybrid renewable energy system as the solution for electrification of rural Cambodia. This is frugal innovation, local solution with local materials for and with local people. A suitable configuration for the proposed system is a solar-hydro hybrid generation system since solar and water resources are plentiful in rural Cambodia. The components that are reused in the solution after being discarded include computer power supply units (PSUs) for the solar part, uninterruptable power supply units (UPSs) and three phase induction machines for the electrohydro part. Used auto-mobile batteries will be used for the system storage. The thesis presents in the first part the evaluation of the environmental impacts of the proposed reuse solution for rural electrification. The study of the environmental impacts is based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology which compares the life cycle impacts of the proposed solution to that of a conventional solution. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis is achieved in order to evaluate the impacts of uncertainties of the environmental impacts. The second part of this work deals with the technological aspects of the reuse solution in both theory and experimentation. The first part of this aspect is focused on the repurposing of used computer power supply units (PSUs), through limited modifications of the circuits in order to increase its range of operation. The PSU which usually contains one of a few types of isolated DC-DC converters is repurposed as charge controller with MPPT control in a cheap micro-controller with very good results. The last part of this thesis studies a new configuration of generators based on re-used three-phase induction motors. The proposed single-phase generator is based on a three-phase machine in a modified version of the coupling and with a rather uncommon supply. Modelling is highly investigated. An inverterassisted topology where two windings will be supplied separately by two inverters for excitation and the remaining winding is connected to load. A new modeling of the generator has been studied. The results of simulation were compared to experimental test results in open loop study. These results have demonstrated the advantages of the new configuration in comparison to the previously proposed inverter-assisted topology in term of efficiency and minimization of torqueripple

Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση λειτουργίας και ελέγχου ανεμογεννήτριας σταθερών στροφών, που αποτελείται από επαγωγική γεννήτρια βραχυκυκλωμένου κλωβού (SCIG) συνδεδεμένη στο δίκτυο με στατικό αντισταθμιστή (STATCOM). Η διάταξη περιλαμβάνει εκτός από την ανεμογεννήτρια και τον STATCOM, μια συστοιχία πυκνωτών (με αντιστάσεις συνδεδεμένες παράλληλα) σε συνδεσμολογία αστέρα πάνω στον κοινό κόμβο διασύνδεσης της ανεμογεννήτριας και του STATCOM, φίλτρο τύπου R-L στην έξοδο του STATCOM και ισοδύναμη αναπαράσταση της ωμικο-επαγωγικής γραμμής μεταφοράς του δικτύου και της τάσης του. Η ανάλυση του μοντέλου γίνεται μεταφέροντας τις εξισώσεις στο σύστημα των d-q αξόνων με χρήση του μετασχηματισμού Park. Στη συνέχεια γίνεται υλοποίηση του μοντέλου στο πρόγραμμα Simulink και πραγματοποιούνται προσομοιώσεις. / The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the use of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) to mitigate the voltage fluctuations and improve power quality of a wind turbine with squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG). The simulated system contains a wind turbine with a fixed-speed SCIG connected at the same point with a STATCOM (including an R-L filter), a capacitor bank (with a resistive load) connected in star and the transmission line for grid connection. System’s equations are transformed into the d-q synchronous reference frame using Park’s trans-formation and the complete model is presented in its state-space form. Finally, the system is simulated in Matlab/Simulink and the responses are presented.

Esta Tese trata do controle e integração de centrais eólicas à rede elétrica interligada, utilizando-se geradores de indução duplamente alimentados (GIDE). O objetivo principal da Tese foi desenvolver estratégias de controle discreto para o sistema de geração eólica, de forma a reduzir os impactos na qualidade da energia gerada, em função dos diversos regimes e transitórios de vento, que podem ocorrer no sítio eólico. Para o projeto do sistema de controle dos geradores foi adotada a técnica do controle vetorial, de forma a desacoplar o controle do fluxo das potências ativa e reativa entre o gerador e a rede elétrica. Visando caracterizar os diversos modos de operação do GIDE, com velocidades acima e abaixo da síncrona, foi desenvolvido um estudo de regime permanente do gerador, obtendo-se os limites de correntes, tensões e demais grandezas elétricas e mecânicas, para uma determinada faixa de velocidade. As principais estratégias de controle atualmente utilizadas pelos fabricantes de turbinas eólicas foram analisadas, destacando-se os aspectos da eficiência energética do conjunto turbina-gerador e da qualidade da energia. O projeto das malhas de controle dos conversores estáticos conectados ao circuito do rotor foi desenvolvido utilizando a técnica de controle discreto, propondo-se as estratégias de controle e o conjunto de especificações para definição dos ganhos dos controladores, objetivando reduzir os impactos na qualidade da energia gerada. Foi analisada a influência da modelagem da turbina com eixos elásticos e eixos rígidos, no comportamento das variáveis controladas. Buscando reduzir os harmônicos de ordem elevada da corrente do gerador, devido à modulação por largura de pulso (PWM) dos conversores estáticos, foi proposta uma estratégia de projeto de filtro passivo LCL, instalado no circuito do rotor. Um programa de simulação no ambiente Matlab/Simulinkâ foi desenvolvido, para análise da interligação de um parque eólico, representado por uma turbina equivalente, ao sistema elétrico de potência reduzido, permitindo estudos de regime permanente e transitório. Com este programa, um estudo de caso foi realizado, avaliando-se o controle e a integração de uma usina eólica de 192MW, conectada na rede básica do sistema interligado nacional, na tensão 230kV. Os resultados obtidos mostram as contribuições, das estratégias de controle propostas, para melhorar o comportamento das tensões do sistema elétrico quando da ocorrência de transitórios de ventos na usina. / This Thesis presents the control and integration of wind farms to the interconnected power grid, using doubly fed induction generators (DFIG). The main objective of the present Thesis was to develop discrete control strategies for the wind generation system, with the goal to reduce the wind variations impacts in the grid power quality. The design technique selected for the generators control system was the vector control technique, which allows independent control of active and reactive power flow between the generator and the grid. In order to characterize the diverse operation modes of the DFIG, below and above the synchronous speed, a generator steady-state study was developed, getting the current and voltage limits and the others electric and mechanical safe limits variables, for one determined speed range. The main control strategies currently used by the wind turbines manufacturers were analyzed, highlighting the aspects of the turbine-generator energy efficiency and the power quality. The control loops design of the static converters was developed using the discrete control technique. It was elaborated the control strategies and also the basic specifications used to define the controllers gains, with the key target to reduce the impacts in the grid power quality caused by the wind variations. Other aspect covered by this work was the influence of the turbine modeling, with rigid shafts and with shafts of a relatively low stiffness, in the control system performance. In a way to reduce high order harmonics in the generator current, caused by the pulse width modulation (PWM) of the static converters, it was proposed a design strategy of a passive LCL filter, installed in the rotor circuit. A simulation program was developed, using the Matlab/SimulinkÔ platform, to analyze the interconnection of a wind farm, represented by a equivalent turbine, to the reduced power electrical system, allowing steady-state and transient studies. With this simulation program, a case study was developed evaluating the control and integration of a 192MW wind farm, connected to 230kV voltage level of the national interconnected power system. The main results reached by this work showed the contributions of the control strategies proposed to improve the electrical system voltages behavior, when wind variations occur in the wind farm.

Esta Tese trata do controle e integração de centrais eólicas à rede elétrica interligada, utilizando-se geradores de indução duplamente alimentados (GIDE). O objetivo principal da Tese foi desenvolver estratégias de controle discreto para o sistema de geração eólica, de forma a reduzir os impactos na qualidade da energia gerada, em função dos diversos regimes e transitórios de vento, que podem ocorrer no sítio eólico. Para o projeto do sistema de controle dos geradores foi adotada a técnica do controle vetorial, de forma a desacoplar o controle do fluxo das potências ativa e reativa entre o gerador e a rede elétrica. Visando caracterizar os diversos modos de operação do GIDE, com velocidades acima e abaixo da síncrona, foi desenvolvido um estudo de regime permanente do gerador, obtendo-se os limites de correntes, tensões e demais grandezas elétricas e mecânicas, para uma determinada faixa de velocidade. As principais estratégias de controle atualmente utilizadas pelos fabricantes de turbinas eólicas foram analisadas, destacando-se os aspectos da eficiência energética do conjunto turbina-gerador e da qualidade da energia. O projeto das malhas de controle dos conversores estáticos conectados ao circuito do rotor foi desenvolvido utilizando a técnica de controle discreto, propondo-se as estratégias de controle e o conjunto de especificações para definição dos ganhos dos controladores, objetivando reduzir os impactos na qualidade da energia gerada. Foi analisada a influência da modelagem da turbina com eixos elásticos e eixos rígidos, no comportamento das variáveis controladas. Buscando reduzir os harmônicos de ordem elevada da corrente do gerador, devido à modulação por largura de pulso (PWM) dos conversores estáticos, foi proposta uma estratégia de projeto de filtro passivo LCL, instalado no circuito do rotor. Um programa de simulação no ambiente Matlab/Simulinkâ foi desenvolvido, para análise da interligação de um parque eólico, representado por uma turbina equivalente, ao sistema elétrico de potência reduzido, permitindo estudos de regime permanente e transitório. Com este programa, um estudo de caso foi realizado, avaliando-se o controle e a integração de uma usina eólica de 192MW, conectada na rede básica do sistema interligado nacional, na tensão 230kV. Os resultados obtidos mostram as contribuições, das estratégias de controle propostas, para melhorar o comportamento das tensões do sistema elétrico quando da ocorrência de transitórios de ventos na usina. / This Thesis presents the control and integration of wind farms to the interconnected power grid, using doubly fed induction generators (DFIG). The main objective of the present Thesis was to develop discrete control strategies for the wind generation system, with the goal to reduce the wind variations impacts in the grid power quality. The design technique selected for the generators control system was the vector control technique, which allows independent control of active and reactive power flow between the generator and the grid. In order to characterize the diverse operation modes of the DFIG, below and above the synchronous speed, a generator steady-state study was developed, getting the current and voltage limits and the others electric and mechanical safe limits variables, for one determined speed range. The main control strategies currently used by the wind turbines manufacturers were analyzed, highlighting the aspects of the turbine-generator energy efficiency and the power quality. The control loops design of the static converters was developed using the discrete control technique. It was elaborated the control strategies and also the basic specifications used to define the controllers gains, with the key target to reduce the impacts in the grid power quality caused by the wind variations. Other aspect covered by this work was the influence of the turbine modeling, with rigid shafts and with shafts of a relatively low stiffness, in the control system performance. In a way to reduce high order harmonics in the generator current, caused by the pulse width modulation (PWM) of the static converters, it was proposed a design strategy of a passive LCL filter, installed in the rotor circuit. A simulation program was developed, using the Matlab/SimulinkÔ platform, to analyze the interconnection of a wind farm, represented by a equivalent turbine, to the reduced power electrical system, allowing steady-state and transient studies. With this simulation program, a case study was developed evaluating the control and integration of a 192MW wind farm, connected to 230kV voltage level of the national interconnected power system. The main results reached by this work showed the contributions of the control strategies proposed to improve the electrical system voltages behavior, when wind variations occur in the wind farm.

Αντικείμενο αυτής της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη και προσομοίωση της λειτουργίας μιας ανεμογεννήτριας μεταβλητών στροφών, η οποία οδηγεί μια ασύγχρονη γεννήτρια διπλής τροφοδότησης, με τη βοήθεια του προγράμματος PSCAD/EMTDC. Γίνεται επίσης μελέτη της λειτουργίας αυτής της ανεμογεννήτριας κατά τη διάρκεια βυθίσεων της τάσης του δικτύου, καθώς και μελέτη της δυνατότητας παραμονής της μηχανής σε λειτουργία κατά τη διάρκεια αυτών των σφαλμάτων. Πιο αναλυτικά, στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται αναφορά στις ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας και ειδικότερα στην αιολική ενέργεια και στο σημαντικό ποσοστό ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, που καλούνται να συνεισφέρουν στο σύνολο του ενεργειακού μείγματος κάθε χώρας, στο μέλλον. Γίνεται αναφορά στο κόστος παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας με χρήση αιολικής ενέργειας και στη συνέχεια το κόστος αυτό συγκρίνεται με το κόστος της ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας που παράγεται από συμβατικούς σταθμούς. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μία γενική παρουσίαση των αιολικών συστημάτων. Περιγράφονται τα δομικά στοιχεία μιας ανεμογεννήτριας και η αεροδυναμική μετατροπή της κινητικής ενέργειας του ανέμου σε ηλεκτρική. Παρουσιάζονται διάφορες τοπολογίες ανεμογεννητριών που χρησιμοποιούνται σήμερα και στη συνέχεια δίνεται το μαθηματικό μοντέλο της γεννήτριας επαγωγής διπλής τροφοδότησης και οι μετασχηματισμοί σε στρεφόμενα πλαίσια αναφοράς. Κατόπιν γίνεται μελέτη του μετατροπέα πηγής τάσης και αναφέρονται τεχνικές διαμόρφωσης για την παραγωγή των επιθυμητών κυματομορφών. Τέλος, γίνεται σχεδιασμός ενός LCL φίλτρου καταστολής των αρμονικών συνιστωσών των ρευμάτων που εγχύει ο μετατροπέας στο δίκτυο. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο περιγράφεται ο διανυσματικός έλεγχος και γίνεται εφαρμογή του στον έλεγχο του μετατροπέα προς την πλευρά του δρομέα και στον έλεγχο του μετατροπέα προς την πλευρά του δικτύου. Παρουσιάζεται η γενική στρατηγική ελέγχου της ανεμογεννήτριας με χρήση του ελέγχου βήματος πτερυγίου για τον περιορισμό της παραγώμενης ισχύος στις υψηλές ταχύτητες ανέμου. Όταν η ταχύτητα του ανέμου είναι μικρότερη της ονομαστικής, τότε η ταχύτητα της μηχανής και η παραγώμενη ισχύς ακολουθούν την χαρακτηριστική ισχύος – ταχύτητας, που εξασφαλίζει βέλτιστη λειτουργία. Γίνεται προσομοίωση της λειτουργίας της ανεμογεννήτριας και εκτίμηση της απόκρισης σε βηματικές αλλαγές της ταχύτητας του ανέμου. Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μελέτη παραμονής της ανεμογεννήτριας σε λειτουργία, κατά τη διάρκεια βύθισης της τάσης του δικτύου και ανάλυση μεθόδων υλοποίησης αυτού του στόχου. Με την ανίχνευση του σφάλματος ο δρομέας βραχυκυκλώνεται και ο μετατροπέας προς την πλευρά του δρομέα αποσυνδέεται, ενώ οι διακόπτες του αποκόπτονται για να προστατευθούν από το υψηλό ρεύμα του δρομέα. Μόλις το ρεύμα του δρομέα πέσει και πάλι κάτω από την ανώτατη επιτρεπτή τιμή, ο μετατροπέας συνδέεται και πάλι με τον δρομέα για να ανακτήσει τον έλεγχο της παραγώμενης από τον στάτη ενεργού και αέργου ισχύος. Αμέσως παράγεται άεργος ισχύς για την στήριξη της τάσης του δικτύου, ενώ μειώνεται η παραγωγή ενεργού ισχύος, έτσι ώστε το συνολικό ρεύμα του δρομέα να παραμείνει μέσα στα επιτρεπτά όρια. Με την αποκατάσταση της τάσης του δικτύου, η παραγώμενη ενεργός και άεργος ισχύς παίρνουν σταδιακά τις τιμές που είχαν πριν την εκδήλωση του σφάλματος. / -

Αυτή η διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει θέματα που αφορούν την παρεχόμενη ποιότητα ισχύος στα σύγχρονα ηλεκτρικά συστήματα. Θα εξετάσουμε την απόδοση ενός στατικού σύγχρονου αντισταθμιστή STATCOM, που λειτουργεί ως ρυθμιστής τάσης, σε ένα σύστημα αυτοδιεγειρόμενης επαγωγικής γεννήτριας που τροφοδοτεί μη γραμμικά φορτία. Εκτός της θεωρητικής ανάλυσης των συνιστωσών του εξεταζόμενου συστήματος, θα πραγματοποιήσουμε προσομοίωσή του, με τη βοήθεια του λογισμικού PSCAD/EMTDC, με σκοπό την εξαγωγή χρήσιμων συμπερασμάτων από τα παραγόμενα αποτελέσματα. Ειδικό ενδιαφέρον θα δοθεί εκτός από την απόδοση στη ρύθμιση της τάσης και στη συνολική αρμονική παραμόρφωση της τάσης και την επίδραση των αρμονικών στην ποιότητα ισχύος. / This diploma thesis studies issues concerning the provided power quality in modern power systems. We will examine the performance of a STATCOM (Static synchronous Compensator) based voltage regulator in a, self excited induction generator (SEIG) feeding non-linear loads system. Besides the theoretical analysis of each component of the examined system, we will simulate it with the help of a software program called PSCAD/EMTDC in order to get useful conclusions through the provided results. Specific attention will be given, besides the efficiency in voltage regulation, in total harmonic distortion and the effect harmonics cause in power quality.