2008 能源與科技論壇暨研討會

Wind Turbine Generators Fault Ride-Through Capability

- A Comparison Study of SCIG and DFIG
Lin, Yu-Jen
Department of Electrical Engineering, I-Shout University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, ROC

Motivation Squirrel Cage IG Doubly Fed IG

SCIG (Squirrel Cage Induction
Generator) and DFIG (Doubly
Fed Induction Generator) are two
commonly employed generators
in wind turbine power systems.
This
poster investigates these wind
turbine generators’ fault ride-
through capability.
Case Study
The stator of an SCIG directly connects to
the grid, while the rotor circuit is short-
circuited. Therefore, the only control
measure is pitch angle control whose
original objective is to limit wind power and
then prevent from turbine damage.
SCIG
Turbine
P s Qs
In a DFIG, the stator directly connects
to the grid but the rotor is fed from a
back-to-back AC/DC/AC converter set
via slip rings and brushes. The rotor
side converter, RSC, controls the
wind turbine output power and the
voltage measured at the grid side. The
grid side converter, GSC, regulates
the DC bus voltage and interchange
reactive power with the grid. It also has
pitch angle control. All in all, DFIG

W ind
ωr
S tator owns more degrees of freedom in
Tr

Figure below shows a Rotor control than SCIG. Below illustrates a

Power system consisting of a
P m S tator DFIG’s schematic diagram.
Thre e -Phas e Grid

wind farm including Pitch Angle Control

Three 575V, 3 MW Control

wind turbines. Each wind

turbine is equipped with a capacitor
set providing 600 kVar reactive power. The wind farm delivers DFIG
8.7 MW electricity to 120 kV grid through a 25 km, 25 kV distribution Turbine Pr RS C
DC
GS C P gc
Qr Qgc
feeder. Consider a double-line grounded fault which may cause from, ωr
P s Qs
S tator
W i nd
say, stormy lightening, occurred at the spot marked in the figure. Tr
Rotor
Rotor S ide
Conve rte r
Grid S ide
Conve rte r

Vr Vgc
Pm S tator
Thre e -Phas e Grid

Results Pitch Angle Control

Control

Through comprehensive computer simulations, it has been

shown that, using SCIG, all three wind turbines WT1, 2 and 3, are
tripped due to under-voltage protection. However, if we are using
DFIG, the system can ride through the fault without tripping any wind
turbine , as indicated in the figure.

25kV
Wind
Case 575V WT 1
3 MW
Turbine
Using
1 km

Study 25kV/575V
600 kvar
SCIG
120kV
T1 575V
WT 2
3 MW
25 km 1 km
120kV / 25kV 25kV/575V Wind
Turbine
600 kvar

575V

1 km
WT 3
3 MW Using
25kV/575V

600 kvar
DFIG