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Rthca Thermal resistance from case to ambient providing sufficient voltage support, the DFIG WT has a
P Power loss of each power semiconductor higher priority to support the voltage control compared to
Ta Ambient temperature other voltage control devices in the WF [8].
ton On-state time within a fundamental period Recently, reliability issues in WT are becoming more and
te Fundamental period of current more of importance, especially when the WF moves from the
τ Thermal time constant onshore to the offshore. The harsh environment forces the WT
AD Annual damage system to operate up to 25 years due to the expensive offshore
Nf Cycle-to-failure of power semiconductor installation and maintenance. According to a field survey of
β1 Exponential coefficients of temperature swing WT system [10], the electrical part has the highest failure
β2 Exponential coefficients of mean temperature rated compared to other parts like the turbine, gearbox,
β3 Exponential coefficients of on-state time generator and control. It can be inferred that the lifetime of the
β4 Scaling factor of the lifetime model power converter is the shortest and determines the lifetime of
Vm Magnetizing voltage (complex) WT system. Based on the thermal stress analysis of power
electronics converter in [10], the lifetime of WT’s power
Vs Stator voltage (complex) converter, defined as how many years it can continuously
Is Stator current (complex) operate at the current working condition, depends on the
WT’s active power generation and reactive power generation,
Im Magnetizing current (complex)
which are closely related to the WT’s mission profile.
Ir Rotor current (complex) Wake effect in the WF is an important issue, especially in
Vr Rotor voltage (complex) large-scale WFs. The obvious effect of the wake is the power
loss of the WTs in a single wake or in multiple wakes. Many
works have focused on the development of wake model [11]
II. INTRODUCTION
and [12]. With the consideration of the wake effect, WF
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load among WTs is essentially to dispatch the reactive power Vm Vs I s ( Rs js Lls ) (3)
requirement of each WT in the WF in proportion to its
reactive power capability [20]. However, even with this The magnetizing current can be calculated by,
method implemented, the lifetime of upstream WT’s power
Vm
converter could even be shorter than the industrial standard, Im (4)
while the downstream WTs could have very long lifetime. In js Lm
this paper, an reactive power dispatch method is proposed to The rotor current can be calculated by,
improve the lifetime of upstream WT’s power converter, by
trading-off the lifetime of each WT’s power converter. Based Ir Is Im (5)
on the reference of each WT’s active power, the calculation of
the lifetime of the each WT’s power converter and the reactive The rotor voltage can be calculated by,
power capability of each WT, the appropriate reactive power
Vr sVm I r ( Rr jss Llr ) (6)
for each WT can be generated.
This paper is organized as follows. DFIG model and The slip s can be calculated by,
reactive power capability of DFIG WT are analyzed in
Section III. The method to evaluate the lifetime of WT’s s r
s (7)
power converter is introduced in Section IV. The proposed s
reactive power dispatch method to improve the lifetime of
upstream WT’s power converter is discussed in Section V. Is Rs Ir
jX ls jX lr RSC
Simulation case studies on a WF with 80 NREL 5 MW DFIG
Im Rr / s
WTs to analyze and demonstrate the proposed method is Re q / s
carried out in Section VI. Finally, some concluding remarks
Vs Vm jX m Vr /s
are drawn in Section VII. jX eq / s
Pag
III. DFIG MODEL AND REACTIVE POWER CAPABILITY
The typical configuration of DFIG WT is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Steady-state equivalent circuit of DFIG.
The reactive power from the stator side of the generator and
the reactive power from the GSC can be generated by the
DFIG WT and integrated into the power system. B. Reactive Power Capability of DFIG WT
Depending on the active power of the WT, the reactive
power capability of DFIG WT which is limited by the stator
current, the rotor current and the rotor voltage is analyzed in
[6].
The reactive power from the stator side of the generator
can be calculated by
Qs 3Vs I s sin s (8)
where the mechanical torque can be calculated by, QGSC S GSC 2 Pr 2 (9)
Pm Pm where the active power from the rotor-side of the generator
Tm (2)
m r / p can be calculated by
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The detailed flowchart to estimate the lifetime of the RSC The first term is the conduction loss, and the second term is
is shown in Fig. 3. Based on the requirement of the active the switching loss. Vf is the voltage drop during its on-state
power Ps and the reactive power Qs, the procedure starts with period, Err is the reverse-recovery energy dissipated by the
the loading translation to calculate the rotor-side current diode, which is normally given by the manufacturer at a
certain dc-link voltage. It can be seen that the IGBT and the
I r and voltage Vr of the DFIG [22],
diode conducts complementarily within a switching period.
Ls Ps V L Q Moreover, the IGBT and the diode loss in (13) and (14) are
I r k sr [ j ( s s s )] (11) aimed for the entire bridge. For each power semiconductor
Lm 3Vs 1 Lm Lm 3Vs
(the IGBT or the diode), the loss will only be a half.
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Since the mean junction temperature Tjm and the junction V. PROPOSED REACTIVE POWER DISPATCH METHOD
temperature fluctuation dTj are regarded as the two most Considering the active power difference among the WTs in
important reliability indicators, they can be calculated as [23], the WF because of the wake effect, the proposed reactive
4 3
power dispatch method aims to increase the lifetime of the
T jm _ T / D P R thjc _ T / D ( i )
P R thca _( j )
Ta (15)
upstream WT’s power converter which is overly short, and
i 1 j 1
moreover to maximize the total lifetime of the overall WT’s
4
[1 exp( ton thjc _ T / D ( i ) )]
2
power converters. The proposed reactive power dispatch
dT j _ T / D 2 P R thjc _ T / D ( i )
1 exp( te thjc _ T / D ( i ) )
(16)
method can be formulated by the objective function, the
i 1
constraints and the control variables as described below.
In (15), Rthjc is the thermal resistance from the junction to The objective function:
case of the power module, Rthca is the thermal resistance of the
n
cooling system, in which subscripts i and j denote four-layer
Max ( WTi LWTi ( PWTi , QWTi )) (19)
and three-layer Foster structure for the power module and the i 1
cooling, respectively. P is the power loss of each power
semiconductor, and Ta is the ambient temperature. In (16), ton where n is the number of WTs in the WF. The lifetime of the
denotes the on-state time within each fundamental period of the ith WT’s power converter LWTi, which depends on the ith
the current at the steady-state operation, te denotes the WT’s active power PWTi and reactive power QWTi, can be
fundamental period of the current, τ denotes the thermal time obtained in lifetime look-up-table as discussed in Section IV.
constant of each Foster layer. WTi is the weight coefficient. When the lifetime of the WT’s
Based on the B10 lifetime model of the power power converter is overly short, the weight coefficient is set to
semiconductor [23], [24], the cycle-to-failure of the IGBT and be a large value, and when the lifetime of the WT’s power
the diode Nf can be calculated, converter is overly long, the weight coefficient is set to be a
2 small value, to make sure the lifetime of the WT’s power
N f 4 dT j 1 exp( ) ton 3 (17) converter, which is overly short, can be increased.
T jm 273
Following constraints are existing:
where β1, β2, and β3 are exponential coefficients related to the
temperature fluctuation, the mean temperature and the on-state 0 QWTi QWTi _ cap (20)
time, respectively. β4 denotes the scaling factor of the lifetime
model. n
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Y (km)
each WT: PWTi and the voltage at PCC: VPCC 3
4
2
Calculate the reactive power capability of each wind 3
turbine:QWTi_Av, with the active power of each WT: PWTi and 1 2
the the voltage at the terminal of each wind turbine: VWTi
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
No α=352° X (km) α=311°
Constraint (20) - (22)
satisfied?
Fig. 5. Layout of the WF with 80 NREL 5 MW WTs.
Yes
Obtain the lifetime of each WT’s power converter from
the lifetime look-up-table, with the active power of
End condition No
satisfied?
Fig. 6. Active power curve of the NREL 5 MW WT.
Yes
Obtain the optimal reactive power of each WT : QWTi_OPT 1
Fig. 4. Flow chart to obtain the reactive power for each WT, with the PSO
3m/s
based optimization algorithm. 4m/s
Active power (pu)
0.8 5m/s
6m/s
VI. CASE STUDY AND DISCUSSION
0.6 7m/s
8m/s
In this section, the proposed reactive power dispatch 9m/s
0.4
method is analyzed and demonstrated in a WF with 80 NREL 10m/s
5 MW DFIG WTs. The layout of the WF, which is the same 11m/s
0.2
with the offshore WF of Horns Rev 1 in Denmark, is shown in 12m/s
Fig. 5. The distance between two adjacent WTs in the same 13m/s
0 14m/s
row or in the same column is 819 m, which is 6.5 times of the
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
blade diameter. The parameters of the NREL 5MW WT are 15m/s
enclosed in the appendix Table I. Column No. n of WTm_n
Fig. 7. Active power of the WTs in each column at 270° wind direction and at
A. Active Power Generation the wind speeds from 3 m/s to 15 m/s with the resolution of 1 m/s.
To estimate the active power generation of each WT in the
WF, the active power curve as shown in Fig. 6 [27] is 131°, 172°, 221°, 270°, 311° and 352°. At these wind
directions the WTs have the most different active power
assumed to be implemented in the WT control system. The
generation. In order to illustrate the difference of each WT’s
active power curve incorporates 5 control regions, where the
active power generation, the active power generations of each
MPPT is implemented in region 3. The active power of each WT at 270° wind direction and at the wind speeds in the range
WT is estimated by the Katic model [28] and [15]. The WF is of 3 m/s to 15 m/s are calculated and shown in Fig. 7. At this
assumed to be an offshore WF and the decay constant k=0.04 wind direction, WTs in the same row will not cause the wind
is adopted [29]. speed deficit for WTs in other rows. Thus, the WTs in the
The highest power losses of the WF, because of the wake same column (as shown in Fig. 5, WTm_n is marked with its
effect, appears at the wind directions that are aligned to the row No. m and column No. n) have the same active power
symmetry axes of the WF [11]. In this case study, the high generation.
power loss appears at the wind directions of around 41°, 90°,
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B. Reactive Power Capability only the RSC is normally required to excite the rotor-side of
As analyzed in [6], the over-excited reactive power the generator in order to guarantee the unity power factor
capability of the DFIG WT is limited by the maximum rotor operation at the stator side of the generator, but also the rotor
current. At stator voltages of 0.9 pu, 1.0 pu and 1.1 pu, the voltage is much lower than the grid voltage, which results in
maximum reactive power from the stator side of the generator the higher current stress of the RSC. Besides, the operation
in terms of active power generation are shown in Fig. 8. To frequency of the RSC is also much lower than the GSC, which
make sure that the WT is able to generate the rated active causes high thermal cycling. As stated in Section IV, the
power at the stator voltages in the range of 0.9 pu to 1.1 pu, lifetime of the power converters is typically decided by the
the maximum rotor current is selected to be 1.11 pu. It should RSC. Moreover, the reactive power compensation from the
be noticed that, in this case study, the rated power and the RSC further affects its reliability. As the under-excited
rated stator phase voltage have been used as the base value for reactive power relieves the stress of the RSC, while the over-
the normalization. excited reactive power imposes its thermal stress [25], only
the over-excited reactive power is concerned.
Reactive power capability (pu)
1010
Lifetime (year)
105
Under load area
3m/s
0.9 4m/s
60
5m/s
0.8 6m/s
Lifetime (year)
7m/s 40
0.7 8m/s
9m/s
0.6 10m/s 20
11m/s
0.5 12m/s 0
13m/s 0.8 0
0.4 14m/s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0.85 0.05
15m/s 0.9 0.1
Column No. n of WTm_n 0.15
0.95
Fig. 9. Reactive power capability of the WT in each column, at 270° wind
direction and at the wind speeds from 3 m/s to 15 m/s with the resolution of 1
1 0.2
m/s.
Active power (pu) Reactive power (pu)
(b)
Fig. 10. Lifetime of the DFIG WT’s power converter in terms of active power
and reactive power. (a) Active power from 0 pu to 1 pu and the reactive power
C. Lifetime of the Power Converter from 0 pu to 1 pu. (b) Active power from 0.8 pu to 1 pu and the reactive
In the DFIG system, although the active power flowing power from 0 pu to 0.2 pu.
through the RSC is exactly the same as the GSC, the thermal
loading of the RSC is much higher than the GSC [10]. Not According to the parameters of the DFIG listed in Table I
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6 QWF_PRO= 0.8QWF_Capability
QWF_OPT = 0.8QWF_Capability
5
QWF_PRO = 0.5QWF_Capability
4 QWF_OPT = 0.5QWF_Capability
QWF = 0
3
(a) 2
1
Wind speed (m/s)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
WT(m-1)*10+n
Fig. 14. Comparison of the annual lifetime consumption of each WT’s power
converter between the proposed reactive power dispatch method and the
method that dispatches the reactive power reference for the WF to each WT in
proportion to each WT’s reactive power capability.
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MW Reference Wind Turbine for Offshore System Development," with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987
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ISBN 87-550-3457-8, 2005. He has received 17 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS
Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in
2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014 and the
Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014. He was an Editor-in-Chief of
Jie Tian (S’2013) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc.
the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to
degrees from Yanshan University, China, in 2005
2012. He is nominated in 2014 and 2015 by Thomson Reuters to be between
and 2011 respectively. He is now a Ph.D. Student
the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.
with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg
University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is working on the
advanced coordinative control of the wind power
conversion system.
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