This paper presents an investigation of the impact of multi-generator power islands on the performance of the most-commonly used anti-islanding protection method, Rate of Change of Frequency (ROCOF). In particular, various generating technology mixes including Photovoltaic panels (PV), Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs) and Synchronous Generators (SG) are considered. The Non-Detection Zone...

In this paper, two promising multi-megawatt wind turbines equipped with a doubly-fed induction generator-based partial-scale and a permanent magnet synchronous generator-based full-scale two-level power converter are designed and compared. Simulations of the two configurations with respect to loss distribution and junction temperature variation for the power device over the entire wind speed ra...

The excitation control of synchronous generator in a single machine to an infinite bus (SMIB) power system is very important to improve the stability modes of power system. In addition to the usual or conventional excitation control techniques and speed governors, other devices proved its effectiveness to enhance better system stability like power system stabilizers (PSS) and static VAR compens...

Various faults in ship’s electrical power system, primarily those connected with diesel-generators, governors and automatic voltage regulators, may lead to oscillations in generator load, voltage and frequency. If those transients are large enough, a partial or total blackout may occur. In order to prevent such events, it is very important to get an insight into dynamic behaviour of electrical ...

Wind energy development is consumer and environment friendly, it requires shorter construction time compared to thermal, nuclear generation and is cost competitive. It becomes one of the most competitive sources of renewable energy. However, wind power has some disadvantages. For example, wind power is considered an intermittent power supply because wind does not blow 100% of the time. Besides,...

In this article, a new observer-based nonlinear controller for excitation control of synchronous generator is presented. First, a nonlinear sliding mode observer for the synchronous machine damper currents is developed. Second, the existence of a control law for the complete seventh order model of a generator, which takes into account the stator dynamics as well as the damper effects, is proved...

This chapter introduces the operation and control of a Doubly-fed Induction Generator (DFIG) system. The DFIG is currently the system of choice for multi-MW wind turbines. The aerodynamic system must be capable of operating over a wide wind speed range in order to achieve optimum aerodynamic efficiency by tracking the optimum tip-speed ratio. Therefore, the generator’s rotor must be able to ope...

This paper proposes a robust control framework for power system stabilizer to improve system dynamic performance based on model predictive control (MPC). The effectiveness of the proposed power system stabilizer is validated by a simple power system composed of a synchronous generator connected to an infinite bus through a transmission line. A comparison between power system responses at variet...

This paper presents a new and simple controller for transient stabilization with voltage regulation of a synchronous power generator connected to an infinite bus. The overall stability of the system is shown using Lyapunov technique. The design of the proposed controller takes into account the important non linearities of the power system model and it is independent of the equilibrium point. Si...