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A Voltage and Frequency Controller for Stand Alone Pico Hydro Generation

  • Kasal, Gaurav Kumar (Dept. of Electrical Eng., Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi) ;
  • Singh, Bhim (Dept. of Electrical Eng., Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi)
  • Published : 2009.03.20
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Abstract

This paper deals with a voltage and frequency (VF) controller for an isolated power generation system based on an asynchronous generator (AG) driven by a pico hydro turbine. The proposed controller is a combination of a static compensator (STATCOM) and an electronic load controller (ELC) for decoupled control of the reactive and active powers of the AG system to control the voltage and frequency respectively. The proposed generating system along with its VF controller is modeled in MATLAB using SIMULINK and PSB (Power System Block Sets) toolboxes. The performance of the controller is verified for the proposed system and feeding various types of consumer load such as linear/non-linear, balanced/unbalanced and dynamic loads.

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