This paper investigates the integration of Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) System into the standalone Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) based on Variable Speed Wind turbine (VSWT) in DC Microgrid system. The primary aim of SMES system is to retain power balance by drawing power during high wind generation and to extricate it during low power generation. An effective c...

In this paper, an adaptive recurrent neural control scheme is applied to a wind turbine with permanent magnet synchronous generator. Due to the variable behavior of wind currents, the angular speed of the generator is required at a given value in order to extract the maximum available power. In order to develop this control structure, a high order recurrent neural network is used to model the t...

The value of adding adaptive blades to a variable speed turbine is studied by applying a general purpose optimization scheme to a baseline turbine configuration. The turbine is the AWT-26. Adaptive-blade effects involve elastic twist coupling tied to centrifugal and flap loadings. Two baseline variable speed approaches are examined. In the “aggressive” approach the speed control is assumed to l...

Some large wind turbines use a synchronous generator directly-coupled to the turbine. This paper considers condition monitoring and diagnosis of mechanical and electrical faults in such a variable speed machine. The application of wavelet transforms is investigated because of the disadvantages of conventional spectral techniques in processing instantaneous turbine signals. In this paper a new c...

In this paper, dynamic modeling of a Vestas 660 kW wind turbine and its validation are performed based on operational data extracted from Eoun-Ebn-Ali wind farm in Tabriz, Iran. The operational data show that the turbine under study, with a classical PI controller, encounters high fluctuations when controlling the output power at its rated value. The turbine modeling is performed by deriving th...

Wind-profiling lidars are now regularly used in boundary-layer meteorology and in applications such as wind energy and air quality. Lidar wind profilers exploit the Doppler shift of laser light backscattered from particulates carried by the wind to measure a line-of-sight (LOS) velocity. The Doppler beam swinging (DBS) technique, used by many commercial systems, considers measurements of this L...

MODELING AND CONTROL OF A DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR WIND TURBINE-GENERATOR SYSTEMS Xin Jing, M.S.E.E Marquette University, 2012 Wind energy plays an increasingly important role in the world because it is friendly to the environment. During the last decades, the concept of a variable-speed wind turbine (WT) has been receiving increasing attention due to the fact that it is more controll...

To enable wind turbines to produce power under great variety of wind conditions a sophisticated control system is needed. Wind turbine system is highly nonlinear and its dynamic changes rapidly with the change of wind speed. Besides this, wind turbine mechanical structure is very flexible due to its great height and tends to oscillate. All this makes the design of wind turbine control system ve...

The paper aims to develop a novel pitch control system for a large wind turbine driven by a variable-speed pump-controlled hydraulic servo system. To perform practical pitch control experiments, a full-scale test rig of the hydraulic pitch control system for a 2 MW wind turbine’s blade, including a novel pitch control mechanism, a variable-speed pump-controlled hydraulic servo system, a disturb...