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Transmission of Bulk Power from DC-Based Offshore Wind Farm to Grid Through HVDC System

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Wind Energy Conversion Systems

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Trends in growth of the wind energy is getting additional pace by offshore technology. This chapter investigates a suitable control strategy for a DC-based offshore wind farm to transmit bulk power to an onshore grid through a high voltage DC (HVDC) transmission line. The offshore wind farm is composed of variable-speed wind turbines driving permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSG). Each PMSG is connected to the DC bus through a generator-side converter unit to ensure maximum power point tracking control. The DC voltage of the DC-bus is stepped up using a full-bridge DC–DC converter at the offshore HVDC station, and the wind farm output power is transmitted through the HVDC cable. The onshore HVDC station converts the DC voltage to a suitable AC grid voltage. Detailed modeling and control strategies of the overall system are presented. Real wind speed data is used in the simulation study to obtain a realistic response. The effectiveness of the coordinated control strategy developed for the proposed system is verified by simulation analyses using PSCAD/EMTDC, which is the standard power system software package.

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Acknowledgments

The present study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The authors would also like to thank Thomas Ackermann and Stephan Meier for providing valuable technical data.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute, Abu-Dhabi, UAE

    S. M. Muyeen & Ahmed Al-Durra

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, 090-8500, Japan

    J. Tamura

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Appendix

Appendix

Wind turbine parameters

Rated power

2 MW

Air density

1.225 kg/m3

Blade radius

36 m

Rated speed

24 rpm

Parameters of the Phase Shift FB–DC–DC converter

Transformer rating

150 MVA

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10 ?F

Transformer leakage reactance

0.05 pu

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0.002 H

Base operational frequency

200 Hz

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0.001 H

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Muyeen, S.M., Al-Durra, A., Tamura, J. (2012). Transmission of Bulk Power from DC-Based Offshore Wind Farm to Grid Through HVDC System. In: Muyeen, S. (eds) Wind Energy Conversion Systems. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2201-2_21

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