ABSTRACT:
In this paper, a method is
presented to control offshore wind farm output power. This method is able to
fix the wind farm output power even during wind speed variations. In the
proposed method, the offshore wind farm is connected to the onshore grid
through the high-voltage dc (HVdc) cable. Moreover, the power control of the
wind turbines is achieved by controlling the HVdc convertors. In the proposed system,
the generator side convertors have to control the active power absorbed from
the wind, and the grid side ones are obtained to control the HVdc link voltage.
The control system is based on applying the appropriate modulation index to the
voltage source converters. Two control strategies are proposed and analyzed to
control wind farm output power. The simulation results illustrate that the
proposed method is able to smooth the output power of the offshore wind farms
appropriately. The proposed wind farm configuration and the control system are
validated by simulations in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.
KEYWORDS:
4.
PQ-bus
SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK
BLOCK DIAGRAM:
Fig. 1. Proposed
configuration of wind turbines connection.
EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS:
Fig. 2. (a) Wind speed variations (m/s). (b) Turbine
rotational speed (rad/s).
(c) Turbine efficiency.
Fig. 3. HVdc link voltage.
Fig. 4.
Wind farm output power.
CONCLUSION:
In this paper, the configuration and control methods
have been proposed for the offshore wind turbines, connected to the onshore
grid. This method is capable to control and smooth the wind farm output power,
injected to the onshore grid. The proposed system can mitigate the fluctuations
of wind farm output power, even during wind speed variations. In other words,
the wind farm can operate such as a PQ-bus. Moreover, two strategies (fixed
power and MPPT) have been analyzed and compared with each other. Finally, the
proposed method is compared with other similar works to smooth the output power
of the wind farm. The main result is that the proposed method can smooth the
output power better than the TSR, PAC, and OTC methods. But it is a bit weaker
than the KEC method in power smoothing issue. Moreover, using this method, the
wind farm is able to cooperate in frequency control of the onshore grid by controlling the desired active power, to
improve the power system operation, which is the future work of the authors.
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