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Damping Interarea Oscillations in Power Systems with DFIG

With rapid depletion of fossil fuels and increasing environmental concerns, the trend to capture renewable energy, especially through wind energy resources, is increasing. The doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) is the most widely used generator for wind energy conversion because of its various advantages over other types of generators. In a DFIG, the rotor is fed through back to back converters via slip rings. The converters enable the generation control. This control property can be used to support reliable operation of a grid network system. Interarea oscillation has been a major factor in limiting power transfers in interconnected power systems. Poorly damped modes can trigger oscillatory instability, potentially leading to cascading blackouts in such systems. We consider a two-area system where DFIG based wind generation is integrated with conventional synchronous generators. A simple controller is proposed for the DFIG to improve damping of interarca oscillations. To support the proposition, case studies are conducted in Matlab/Simulink. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is then analyzed by eigenvalue analysis and verified with time domain simulation results. The results show that a properly tuned controller can increase the damping of dominant oscillatory mode by nearly 5% while improving the area transfer by about 200 MW of wind power. The results further show that
with the proposed control strategy, damping of dominant oscillatory mode increased by more than 10%. / North Dakota State University. Graduate School / North Dakota State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ndsu.edu/oai:library.ndsu.edu:10365/29173
Date January 2011
CreatorsThapa, Ravi Chandra
PublisherNorth Dakota State University
Source SetsNorth Dakota State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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