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Comparisons of Vector Control Algorithms for Doubly-Fed Reluctance Wind Generators

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This chapter presents a comparative development and thorough assessment of vector control methodologies for a promising brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator (BDFRG) technology for adjustable speed wind turbines. The BDFRG has been receiving increasing attention in research and industrial communities due to the low operation & maintenance costs afforded by the partially-rated power electronics and the high reliability of brushless construction, while offering competitive performance to its commercially popular and well-known slip-ring counterpart, the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG). The two robust, machine parameter independent control schemes, one with flux (field) vector orientation (FOC) and the other voltage vector-oriented (VOC), have been built and their response examined by realistic simulation studies on a custom-designed BDFRG fed from a conventional ‘back-to-back’ IGBT converter. The high quality of the simulation results has been experimentally validated on a laboratory BDFRG test facility under VOC conditions as a preferred control option at large-scale wind power levels.

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Notes

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    Field-oriented control of the primary reactive power and electromagnetic torque is inherently decoupled in both the BDFRG [13, 14] and DFIG [15], but not in the BDFIG [4, 11].

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    A good literature review on control of the BDFIG can be found in [4–6], and of the DFIG in [15, 21].

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK

    Milutin Jovanović & Jude K. Obichere

  2. Institute for Energy and Environment, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1RD, UK

    Sul Ademi

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Jovanović, M., Ademi, S., Obichere, J.K. (2015). Comparisons of Vector Control Algorithms for Doubly-Fed Reluctance Wind Generators. In: Kim, H., Amouzegar, M., Ao, Sl. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7236-5_7

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