• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.693-695
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• 2000

Wide operating range and speed control is needed for wind power generating and a Doubly Fed Induction Generator(DFIG) has good adaptivity for that purpose. This paper deals with power and power factor control using the Grid connected DFIG in the wide speed regions, by controlling frequency and voltage fed to the rotor. Power flow of the DFIG and steady-state algebraic equations of the equivalent circuit are analyzed. For a normal operating region, in which the generator ratings were not exceeded, the rotor current was either less than or equal to the rated value. Accordingly, the optimal power factor can be selected relative to the permissible rated current at the rotor coil which controls the magnitude of the injected rotor voltage to the rotor according to a given rotor frequency.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2016

Wake effects cause wind turbine generators (WTGs) within a wind power plant (WPP) to produce different levels of active power and subsequent reactive power capabilities. Further, the impedance between a WTG and the point of interconnection (POI)-which depends on the distance between them-impacts the WPP's reactive power injection capability at the POI. This paper proposes a voltage control scheme for a WPP based on the available reactive current of the doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) and its impacts on the POI to improve the reactive power injection capability of the WPP. In this paper, a design strategy for modifying the gain of DFIG controller is suggested and the comprehensive properties of these control gains are investigated. In the proposed scheme, the WPP controller, which operates in a voltage control mode, sends the command signal to the DFIGs based on the voltage difference at the POI. The DFIG controllers, which operate in a voltage control mode, employ a proportional controller with a limiter. The gain of the proportional controller is adjusted depending on the available reactive current of the DFIG and the series impedance between the DFIG and the POI. The performance of the proposed scheme is validated for various disturbances such as a reactive load connection and grid fault using an EMTP-RV simulator. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme promptly recovers the POI voltage by injecting more reactive power after a disturbance than the conventional scheme.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1884-1893
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• 2016

The ride-through control of a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) for the voltage sags on wind farms utilizing crowbar circuits by which the rotor side converter (RSC) is disabled has being reported in many literatures. An analysis and calculation of the transient current when the RSC is switched off are of significance for carrying out the low voltage ride through (LVRT) of a DFIG. The mathematical derivation is highlighted in this paper. The zero-state and zero-input responses of the transient current in the frequency domain through a Laplace transformation are investigated, and the transient components in the time domain are achieved. With the characteristics worked out from the linear resolving without modeling simplification, the selection of the resistance in the linear crowbar circuit and the value conversion from a linear circuit to a nonlinear one is proposed to setup the attenuation rate. In terms of grid code requirements, the theoretical analysis for the time constant of the transient components attenuation insures the controllability when the excitation of the RSC is resumed and it guarantees the reserved time for the response of the reactive power compensation. Simulations are executed in MATLAB/SIMPOWER and experiments are carried out to validate the theoretical analysis. They indicate that the calculation method is effective for selection of the resistance in a crowbar circuit for LVRT operations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.200-202
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• 2009

본 논문은 계통전압 불평형시 이중여자 유도형 풍력발전기 (Doubly Fed Induction Generator-DFIG)의 토크 리플 저감과 dc-link 전압의 맥동을 제거하는 기법을 제안한다. 계통전압 불평형 시 DFIG의 동적 모델링을 통해 토크 맥동 성분과 dc-link 전압 리플 성분을 수식화 한다. 유도된 수식을 기반으로 회전자 측 컨버터는 정상분과 역상분을 독립적으로 제어하는 듀얼 전류 제어기를 통해 토크 리플을 저감하며, 계통 측컨버터는 전력이론을 통해 계산된 보상 전류 지령치를 통해 cd-link 전압 맥동을 제거한다. 3kW급 풍력 발전 시스템에 제안하는 기법을 적용한 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 타당성을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2011

This paper presents an analysis and a novel strategy for a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind energy conversion system under unbalanced grid voltage and non-linear load conditions. A proportional-resonant (PR) current controller is applied in both grid side converter (GSC) and rotor side converter (RSC). The RSC is controlled to mitigate the stator active power and the rotor current oscillations at double supply frequency under unbalanced grid voltage while the GSC is controlled to mitigate ripples in the dc-link voltage and compensate harmonic components of the network current. Simulation results using Psim simulation program are presented for a 2 MW DFIG to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.175-176
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• 2015

This paper presents a coordinated control scheme of a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind power plant (WPP) to suppress the overvoltage after a fault clearance. To achieve this, the variation of the terminal voltage at a fault clearance is captured and used to DFIG and WPP controllers. As a result, DFIGs within a WPP suppress the overvoltage rapidly by reducing the reactive power injection. The performance of the proposed scheme was investigated for a 100 MW WPP consisting of 20 units of 5 MW DFIGs for a grid fault. The results show the proposed scheme successfully suppresses the overvoltage at the point of interconnection.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.184-185
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• 2010

This paper deals with a ride-through technique of doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) wind turbine systems using energy storage unit (ESU). By increasing the machine speed, some portion of the turbine power can be stored in the system inertia during grid faults. Also keeping the operation of rotor-side converter (RSC) and grid-side converter (GSC), the rotor current and DC-link voltage can be limited. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulation results for 2[MW] DFIG wind turbine system.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.12-16
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• 2011

최근 정부의 녹색성장(Green Growth) 정책으로 대규모의 풍력발전소 단지가 배전계통에 적극적으로 도입, 운용되고 있다. 풍력발전기의 대표적인 타입 중에 DFIG(Doubly-Fed Induction Generation)는 MSC와 GSC라는 2가지 요소로 구성된다. MSC(Machine-Side Converter)는 발전량을 이용하여 발전기의 토크 또는 회전속도를 제어하며, 발전기에 여자 전류를 공급함으로써 고정자에서 유입되는 무효전력 제어를 담당한다. 그리고 GSC(Grid-Side Converter)는 전력변환 장치의 직류단 전압을 제어하고, GSC와 배전계통 사이의 무효전력도 제어한다. 본 논문에서는 상기의 이론을 바탕으로 PSCAD/EMTDC를 이용한 DFIG 모델링을 수행하여, 다양한 Simulation으로 모델링의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.60-64
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• 2003

신재생에너지 개발을 위한 권선형유도발전기의 유효전력제어와 무효전력제어에 대해 고찰하였다. 10kW DFIG에 양방향 AC/DC/AC 전력변환장치를 적용한 실험을 통해 유효전력제어와 무효전력제어를 검증하였고, 운전 개시 속도를 결정하는 방법과 전력변환장치 용량을 고려한 제어방법, 그리고 역률 가변을 통해 저속도 영역에서의 에너지 회수방안에 대해 고찰하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.320-328
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• 2016

The introduction of renewable energy sources into the AC grid can change and weaken the strength of the grid, which will in turn affect the stability and robustness of the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) wind farm. When integrated with weak grids, the DFIG wind turbine with vector power control often suffers from poor performance and robustness, while the DFIG wind turbine with synchronized control provides better stability. This paper investigates the critical short circuit ratios of DFIG wind turbine with vector power control and synchronized control, to analyze the stability boundary of the DFIG wind turbine. Frequency domain methods based on sensitivity and complementary sensitivity of transfer matrix are used to investigate the stability boundary conditions. The critical capacity of DFIG wind farm with conventional vector power control at a certain point of common coupling (PCC) is obtained and is further increased by employing synchronized control properly. The stability boundary is validated by electromagnetic transient simulation of an offshore wind farm connected to a real regional grid.