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SUBMITTED BY:
Asha Chhetri [19480073]
Samjhana Basyal [19480080]
Shanti Tiwari [19480082]
Susmita Kumal [19480083]
Janaury, 2023
LETTER OF PROPOSAL
To,
Bharatpur-11, Chitwan
Respected sir,
With reference to your letter dated at 8th January 2023, we have prepared this proposal. We
have researched on various subjects for our project and finally have decided to do project on
“LVRT IMPROVEMENT OF DFIG BASED WIND TURBINE USING R-FCL”. In this
proposal, we have thoroughly explained our objectives, plans and significance of the project.
We have tried to make our proposal effective and easily understandable as for as possible.
Sincerely,
Asha Chhetri
Samjhana Bashyal
Shanti Tiwari
Susmita Kumal
ABSTRACT
Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) is widely used wind generator in recent year. Since
the stator of DFIG is directly connected to the grid it is sensitive to the grid fault and
disturbance. DFIG has been required to operate continuously when confronted with fault to
fulfill the grid code requirements. Voltage dip leads to high fault current which may damage
the windings as well as converters. The power imbalance between mechanical and electrical
may leads to mechanical failure. Hence, DFIG is needed to be protected. To improve Low
Voltage Ride through (LVRT) of DFIG based wind turbine, Resistive Fault Current limiter
(RFCL) has been proposed. RFCL act as resistive load or dummytuyh load which and helps
to consume surplus power during the grid disturbance. Simulation will be performed in
MATLAB for the different levels of grid voltage dip. Results obtained from the proposed
model will be compared with the existing technologies to verify the effectiveness of proposed
model.
Key Words: Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG), Low Voltage Ride through (LVRT),
Resistive Fault Current Limiter RFCL, MATLAB, Grid Voltage Dip.
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Table of Contents
COVER PAGE...........................................................................................................................i
LETTER OF PROPOSAL.......................................................................................................................ii
ABSTRACT...........................................................................................................................................iii
LIST OF FIGURES................................................................................................................................vi
LIST OF EQUATIONS.........................................................................................................................vii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS..............................................................................................................viii
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................1
1.1 BACKGROUND...........................................................................................................................1
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM......................................................................................................2
1.3 OBJECTIVE..................................................................................................................................2
1.3.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVE:......................................................................................................2
1.3.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:........................................................................................................2
1.4 Scope of Project.............................................................................................................................3
1.5 APPLICATION.............................................................................................................................3
1.6 LIMITATION................................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.................................................................................................4
2.1 RELATED TOOLS.......................................................................................................................4
2.1.1 CROWBAR............................................................................................................................4
2.1.2 DC CHOPPER........................................................................................................................4
2.1.3 SUPERCONDUCTING FAULT CURRENT LIMITER (SFCL)..........................................5
CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY...........................................................................................................7
3.1 METHODOLOGY APPROACH..................................................................................................7
3.2 METHODS FOR SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES.................................................................................8
3.2.1 WIND TURBINE MODELING.............................................................................................8
3.2.2 BACK-TO-BACK CONVERTER AND ITS CONTROL.....................................................9
3.2.3 RSC AND MPPT....................................................................................................................9
3.2.4 GRID SIDE CONVERTER (GSC)........................................................................................9
3.3 METHODS FOR GENERAL OBJECTIVE...............................................................................10
3.3.1 RFCL....................................................................................................................................10
3.4 OVERALL SYSTEM DESCRIPTION.......................................................................................11
3.5 FLOWCHART.............................................................................................................................12
3.6 TOOLS/TECHNOLOGY............................................................................................................13
3.6.1 MATLAB/SIMULINK.........................................................................................................13
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CHAPTER 4: EPILOUGE.....................................................................................................................14
4.1 EXPECTED OUTCOMES..........................................................................................................14
4.2 WORK SCHEDULE...................................................................................................................14
4.3 PROJECT BUDGETING PLAN.................................................................................................15
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................16
LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1: Crowbar in DFIG Based Wind Turbine [11]..............................................................4
Figure 2: Chopper in DFIG Based Wind Turbine [12]..............................................................5
Figure 3: SFCL in DFIG Based Wind Turbine [13]..................................................................5
Figure 4: Methodology Approach (Source: Study group, 2023)...............................................7
Figure 5: Power Curve of Wind Turbine [10]............................................................................8
Figure 6: SDBR Control Strategy [11].....................................................................................11
Figure 7: Overall System [4]....................................................................................................11
Figure 8:Flowchart(Source:GroupStudy,2023)........................................................................12
Figure 9: Gantt Chart (Source: Study group, 2023).................................................................14
Figure 10: Project Budget Plan (Source: Study group, 2023)..................................................15
LIST OF EQUATIONS
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Equation 1: Mechanical Power of Wind Turbine......................................................................8
Equation 2: MPPT......................................................................................................................9
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
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FRT Fault Ride Through
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy resources in the green and clean
energy era. Abrupt change in the global environment and increased demand of energy result
in hike in the use of Renewable Energy Source (RES). The present trend of setting up wind
turbine (WTS) with innovative concepts of the generator and lower power rated power
Electronics Converters (PECS) along with less complicated control structure plays a
significant role in the promotion of the wind generation system (Verma, et al., 2021). A wind
turbine captures the kinetic energy from wind. This kinetic energy is transformed into
mechanical power (Pm) and which is finally converted to electrical energy by Doubly Fed
Induction Generator (DFIG) (Rin, et al., Nov 2021).
DFIG have two field stator and rotor field. Stator winding are connected directly to the grid
and rotor winding are connected to the converter via slip-ring and back to back voltage
source converter that controls both the rotor and the grid current. It uses vector control
techniques that are based on the stator and rotor flux – orientation approach. The vector
control technique in DFIG-WT is sufficient to capture the high power from the wind and
provides better efficiency at normal conditions. Besides several favorable qualities, DFIG-
WTs show some serious concerns of Low Voltage Ride through (LVRT) and low inertia
problems, during faults. The back-to-back converter feedback loop gets disconnected in
DFIG-WT, during faults and the DFIG machine works like a Squirrel-Cage Induction
Generator (SCIG) at that time. Therefore, to ensure the grid stability and power quality, some
definite technical regulations are designed which are known as Grid Code Requirements
(GCRs). These GCRs deal with the regulation of active and reactive power, enhancement of
LVRT, power quality improvement and frequency regulation, etc. DFIG has a several
advantages such as it controls the active and reactive power. It controls the speed in the range
of 30%. As there is less mechanical loss, which helps to reduce the power and lost. The DFIG
provides the high efficiency in smooth grid connection. Beside its benefit the some
drawbacks like, a slip ring is used which requires regular maintenance and high losses on
gear box (Verma, et al., 2021).
Low Voltage Ride-Through (LVRT) is the capability of the wind farm to stay connected with
the grid at the instance of power system disturbance. In electrical power engineering, fault
ride through (FRT), sometimes under-voltage ride through (UVRT), or low voltage ride
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through (LVRT), is the capability of electrical generators to stay connected in short periods
of lower electrical network voltages (voltage sag). It is needed at distribution level (wind
parks, PV systems, distributed cogeneration, etc.) to prevent a short circuit at HV or EHV
level from causing a widespread loss of generation. Similar requirements for critical loads
such as computer systems and industrial processes are often handled through the use of an
uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or capacitor bank to supply make-up power during these
events. There are many techniques to improve the LVRT which are discussed in the literature
(Chang, et al.).
The Series Dynamic Breaking Resistor (SDBR) is the latest device for improvement of Low
voltage Ride-Through of Doubly fed induction generator based wind turbine. SDBR is also
known as RFCL. RFCL approach introduce a resistor bank connected in series with stator
side or rotor side. It is used to increase stator voltage or reduce the rotor current under voltage
sag, respectively therefore mitigating the destabilizing depression of electrical torque and
power during fault (Soliman, 2014).
1.3 OBJECTIVE
1.3.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
To limit overcurrent, balance surplus power and improve the LVRT capability of DFIG based
wind turbine where RFCL is placed in grid side and also analyze the short circuit flowing into
the grid during voltage sag which helps to investigate possible way to improve voltage
support by wind farms in weak networks during a grid disturbance.
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2. To compare proposed R-FCL model with existing technology such as crowbar, SFCL
and DC-chopper protection to verify the effectiveness of the model using
MATLAB/Simulink .
3. To develop MATLAB model of DFIG along with converter and wind turbine.
1.5 APPLICATION
In this project can be implemented in following application areas:
1.6 LIMITATION
Sensitive to grid faults
Heating problem, heating losses
Mechanical loss
Harmonic distortions
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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
The Literature Review portion of the proposal is based on the observations of many research
and system made on similar title. A lot of effort has been put to study the number of research
papers regarding the project to retrieve enough information that will help to achieve our goal.
2.1.2 DC CHOPPER
A simple conventional DC chopper is employed to protect the doubly-fed inductor generator
from overvoltage. However, it is not capable to keep transient over current in an acceptable
level in stator and rotor side. It is preferred for improvement of Fault Ride-Through (FRT)
capability of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG).
Modified chopper is placed between DC link capacitor and RSC.
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Figure 2: Chopper in DFIG Based Wind Turbine (Aboubakar, et
al., 2017)
Disadvantage of DC chopper:
It has no effect on rotor over current so not able to satisfy Fault Ride-Through (FRT)
requirement (Sulla, 2012).
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In SFCL, the suppression of the fault current can cause a trip time delay problem
It has disadvantage due to heating problem, heat loss (Du, et al., 2021, Nov-8)
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CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY
3.2 METHODS FOR SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
3.2.1 WIND TURBINE MODELING
In this project, wind turbine will be used to capture energy from wind .That kinetic energy
will be transformed into mechanical power (PM) which will be further used by DFIG
machine. This PM is function of the cube of wind speed (Verma, et al., 2021). Power curve of
a wind turbine depicts the relationship between output power wind speeds and is an important
characteristic of the turbine. Power curve aids in energy assessment, warranty, formulations
and performances monitory of the turbine (Zhang, et al., March 2019).
PM=1/2[ρπR2Vw3]
ρ =Air-density (Kg/m3),
α= Coefficient of cp
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Figure 4: Power Curve of Wind Turbine (Sohani, et al., 2016)
The converter is used to compensate for the output voltage of the wind turbine to keep the
voltage constant at the maximum power point, voltage and current at the turbine output and
delivers it to the converter. The output voltage characteristics of the wind turbine generators
and its output current are determined based on the amount of wind speed optimal air density
and electrical characteristics of the load. As a result, maximum power point tracking
technologies must be provided in maximum power point control applications to force wind
turbine generator to have optimal efficiency of wind energy in different operating condition
(Sohani, et al., 2016).
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PMPPT = -0.67ωr2 +1.42 ωr +0.51
Equation 2: MPPT (Verma, et al., 2021)
Where,
ωr = rotor speed
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level of bus voltage and generate control signal. All modeling and simulation will be done in
MATLAB/ Simulink software.
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Proposed project may investigates the sizing of the RFCL and its impact on the rotor current,
stator voltage, DC-link voltage and reactive power capability under grid voltages sags. The
boundary of the RFCL value is determined by two criteria. The first one is to avoid the loss
control of the RSC, implying that the rotor voltage due to the transient stator flux at the
presence of grid faults should be limited to the maximum allowable input voltage of the RSC.
The second one is that the summation of the grid side voltage under faults and the voltage
across the RFCL should not exceed the specified maximum stator voltage during the
abnormal condition (Soliman, 2014).
When wind blow on the wind farm then, it start to rotate. But, the rotation speed is less so we
will install to increase the speed. Here, gear box produce the magnetic force and DFIG
produce the electric force, both oppose each other that helps to maintain the constant speed.
The stator of the DFIG will be connected to the grid directly, whereas the rotor will be
connected to the grid through back to back converter. Stator side runs at unidirectional and
rotor side is bidirectional.
The converter will be used to compensate for the output voltage constant at the maximum
power point, voltage and current at the turbine output and delivers it to the converter. We will
be using filters to eliminate harmonics produced by converter. Also, we will design filters for
the Grid Side Converter (GSC) and Rotor Side Converter (RSC) (Soliman, 2014).
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3.5
Figure 8:Flowchart(Source:GroupStudy,2023)
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Above flowchart shows the procedure of our proposal. Firstly, in MATLAB we will setup the
system and start the simulation. Then we will read the system’s bus voltage. If voltage is
greater than Vref then we will take no control action, but if the voltage is less than V ref then we
will active the control action and repeat the process of checking bus voltage. Finally, after the
clearance of fault, the fault current limiter is disconnected from the system and DFIG is
connected to the grid.
Validation of methodology for the design of wine energy conversion system in DFIG can be
done through:
1. The wind design will be based on the collected data secondary source of wind turbine.
The model will be developed in MATLAB/Simulink and will be simulated under
different operating condition such as change in wind flow and to evaluate the wind Power
systems ability to produce expected amount of power and its ability to operate safely and
efficiently.
2. The simulation results will be compared with data obtained from the existing technology.
3. Improved bus voltage must fall within the range between 0.9 to 1.1 Pu.
Finally, the results of all validation process will be documented in a comprehensive report,
detailing the methodology, simulation results, and conclusion and it will be used to improve
the bus voltage of DFIG based wind turbine using RFCL.
3.6 TOOLS/TECHNOLOGY
3.6.1 MATLAB/SIMULINK
MATLAB Simulink is a graphical programming environment for modeling. Simulating and
analyzing dynamic systems. It is a part of the MATLAB technical computing software suite.
Simulink provides graphical interface for constructing and simulating models, allowing users
to create block diagrams, graphical model of systems, and run simulations to understand
system behavior. We will use this tool for modeling and simulating our project for successful
completion.
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CHAPTER 4: EPILOUGE
4.1 EXPECTED OUTCOMES
This project when completed we will design the simulation model of DFIG along with
converter in MATLAB. Control system will be developed which will sense the bus voltage
and triggered the control signal to activate the fault current limiter as fault is encountered in
the system. Finally overall simulation model along with protection scheme will be presented
which will be able to improve LVRT capability of DFIG fulfilling the grid code requirement.
Week 4-6: Near the starting phase of the fourth week, we will continue designing phase
beginning with modelling. We will also continue preparing documentation along with
research work.
Week 7-9: When the seventh week is about to start, we will give continuity on modelling,
research and documentation. On other side, the simulation phase starts on eighth week and
ends at the end of ninth week.
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Week 10-12: This is the phase where we should be focusing mainly on the preparation of
final project report and presentation along with all the documentation started during the
beginning of the project development phase. We will also research on some report and
presentation ideas for a week parallelly. Finally, at the end of the twelfth week, we will
complete our final project report.
10000
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AMOUNT IN RS
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AMOUNT IN RS
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2000
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Stationaries Software Training Transportation Miscellaneous
ACTIVITIES
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