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IRACST – Engineering Science and Technology: An International Journal (ESTIJ), ISSN: 2250-3498,<br />

Vol.2, No. 4, August 2012<br />

<strong>Design</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Doubly</strong> <strong>Fed</strong> <strong>Induction</strong> <strong>Generator</strong> <strong>Driven</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Wind</strong> <strong>Turbine</strong> under<br />

Unbalanced Voltage Conditions with Series Grid-Side Converter<br />

K.V.RAMANA<br />

ramana.kondangi@gmail.com,<br />

VITAM College <strong>of</strong> Engg, Visakhapatnam, India<br />

D.V.N.ANANTH<br />

nagaananth@gmail.com,<br />

VITAM College <strong>of</strong> Engg, Visakhapatnam, India<br />

ABSTRACT: The aptness <strong>of</strong> <strong>Wind</strong> <strong>Turbine</strong>s with <strong>Doubly</strong> <strong>Fed</strong> <strong>Induction</strong><br />

<strong>Generator</strong> for original grid operator that require low Voltage Ride Through<br />

operation is considered. This sophisticated grid technique require the wind<br />

turbines to remain connected even under voltage dips in the grid due to fault or<br />

any unpredicted perturbations. An analysis <strong>of</strong> such problems associated with<br />

voltage dips and methods for Ride Through operation <strong>of</strong> such system are<br />

presented. Simulation results <strong>of</strong> Power Error Vector Control method for the<br />

Voltage Source Inverter connected to the rotor during a voltage dip are shown.<br />

The simulated results show that this type <strong>of</strong> control may eliminate the need for a<br />

crowbar, or at least a great reduction in the rotor currents is obtained and<br />

activation <strong>of</strong> crowbar may be limited to very extreme cases when very strong wind<br />

gusts and very deep voltage dips take place at the same time. A DFIG system with<br />

series grid=side converter (SGSC) has an excellent potential for voltage dips<br />

tolerance. This paper analyzes the reasons <strong>of</strong> a DFIG system with SGSC for<br />

ride=through and presents a control scheme for operation under unbalanced grid<br />

faults conditions. During grid faults, the each component <strong>of</strong> the generator’s<br />

stator flux is effectively controlled through the SGSC. Also, the stator and rotor<br />

currents are further restricted <strong>by</strong> controlling the rotor=side converter (RSC) to<br />

reduce the absorbing energy from wind turbine. Then, successful ride-through <strong>of</strong><br />

a DFIG system with SGSC under all types <strong>of</strong> severe unbalanced grid faults at the<br />

point <strong>of</strong> common coupling (PCC) are achieved with reduced electromagnetic<br />

torque oscillation. The proposed control scheme is validated <strong>by</strong> means <strong>of</strong><br />

simulations.<br />

Keywords: <strong>Doubly</strong> fed induction generator (DFIG), series grid-side Converter<br />

(SGSC), unbalanced grid fault, wind turbine, low voltage ride-through (LVRT),<br />

wind power generation, voltage dips, voltage sags.<br />

1 INTRODUCTION<br />

<strong>Wind</strong> power has become one <strong>of</strong> the most important and<br />

promising sources <strong>of</strong> renewable energy that can partially solve the energy<br />

crisis and environmental dilemma we are confronting today [1]. With the<br />

increased penetration <strong>of</strong> wind power into power grids, its impact on a<br />

power grid cannot be neglected as before. Grid codes now usually require<br />

wind turbines to remain connected to the grid even during extreme<br />

voltage dips such as a short-term low or even a zero voltage event at the<br />

point <strong>of</strong> common coupling (PCC). This is the so-called “low voltage ridethrough<br />

(LVRT)” requirement adopted <strong>by</strong> most European countries [2,3].<br />

The majority <strong>of</strong> wind turbines above 1MW are <strong>Doubly</strong> <strong>Fed</strong> <strong>Induction</strong><br />

<strong>Generator</strong>s (DFIGs) with a partially rated back=to=back converter used<br />

between the rotor circuit and the grid [4=8]. While a saving is made on<br />

the size <strong>of</strong> the power electronic converter, it is well known that a DFIG<br />

system with this configuration is very sensitive to grid disturbances,<br />

especially to voltage dips. During a fault, the transient current on the<br />

stator is reflected on the rotor windings. The resulting rotor current may<br />

exceed the rotor=side converter (RSC) current rating and destroy the<br />

converter if no protection elements are included. The mainstream scheme<br />

adopted <strong>by</strong> manufacturers to ride through grid faults is the so-called<br />

“crowbar protection” [9,10]. When the crowbar is in operation, the high<br />

fault current will flow through the crowbar instead <strong>of</strong> the converter.<br />

Thus, the RSC is well preserved during the fault. However,<br />

under such a scenario, the DFIG behaves as a squirrel=cage induction<br />

machine and consumes lots <strong>of</strong> reactive power from the grid for<br />

magnetization, which may further exacerbate the stability <strong>of</strong> the<br />

connected grid. Also, the operation <strong>of</strong> a crowbar is associated with large<br />

transient electromagnetic torques which will increase the fatigues on the<br />

mechanical components <strong>of</strong> the wind turbine generator system (WTGS),<br />

especially on the gearbox. Another LVRT technology is the rotor flux<br />

control technique [11], which controls the RSC to counteract the<br />

undesired components in the stator flux. However, the active and reactive<br />

power control over the machine is lost during the fault and the DFIG<br />

system also consumes reactive power during the grid recovery.<br />

Furthermore this method is unable to ride through the severe grid faults<br />

such as the voltage dips down to zero at PCC which means it is not<br />

suitable for the new grid codes. In order to fulfill the new grid codes<br />

which require wind turbines to ride through a short=term low or even a<br />

zero voltage event at PCC, modifications to he traditional DFIG<br />

configuration for ride=through have become necessary. Petersson [12]<br />

has proposed a new configuration with a grid=side converter in series<br />

with the stator windings <strong>of</strong> the DFIG and has revealed that DFIG system<br />

with this configuration has an excellent potential for voltage dips<br />

tolerance, but this scheme is not efficient in the power processing<br />

capability.<br />

This paper describes a technique to control DFIG under unbalanced<br />

voltage sags. In comparison with [15] and [16], it uses the<br />

approach based on separating the positive and negative components <strong>of</strong> all<br />

the currents and voltages, as suggested in [12] and [13] for dc/ac<br />

converters and applied to the DFIG as in in [14]. This paper introduces<br />

the following contributions: 1) The whole system is analyzed,<br />

considering both the grid-side and rotor-side converters. The grid-side<br />

converter control is not considered in in [14] or [16]. 2) A technique to<br />

keep the dc bus stable is proposed, based on compensating the rotor<br />

power delivered <strong>by</strong> the rotor-side converter in the grid-side converter. 3)<br />

The objective <strong>of</strong> the technique is to ride through voltage sags; hence, the<br />

main analyzed quantities are the generator torque and the dc voltage bus.<br />

4) Since this paper deals with ride through voltage sags, the crowbar<br />

protection is considered (it is not considered in [14] or in [16]).<br />

The compared to the balanced faults, due to the negative=sequence<br />

component injected <strong>by</strong> the unbalanced grid faults, a more severe current<br />

and torque oscillation will appear when unbalanced voltage dips occur<br />

[16]. Therefore, it is necessary to study the behavior <strong>of</strong> DFIG with this<br />

new configuration under unbalanced grid faults. This paper proposes an<br />

unbalanced-grid-fault ride-through control scheme for a DFIG wind<br />

turbine with the configuration explored in [14, 15, 17]. The paper has<br />

been organized as follows. Section 2 reviews the configuration <strong>of</strong> the<br />

DFIG wind turbine with SGSC. The behaviors <strong>of</strong> DFIG system with<br />

SGSC under unbalanced grid faults are analyzed in Section 3. The<br />

proposed control scheme is designed in Section 4 and validated <strong>by</strong> means<br />

<strong>of</strong> simulations in Section 5. Discussion is provided in Section 6 and<br />

finally Section 7 draws the conclusions.<br />

2 CONTROL SCHEME - BALANCED CONDITIONS<br />

A DFIG wind turbine primarily consists <strong>of</strong> three parts: a wind turbine<br />

drive train, an induction generator, and a power electronic converter (Fig.<br />

1) [2], [4]. In the wind turbine drive train, the rotor blades <strong>of</strong> the turbine<br />

catch wind energy that is then transferred to the induction generator<br />

through a gearbox. The induction generator is a standard, wound rotor<br />

induction machine with its stator windings directly connected to the grid<br />

and its rotor windings connected to the grid through a frequency<br />

converter. The frequency converter is built <strong>by</strong> two self-commutated<br />

voltage-source converters, the RSC and the GSC, with an intermediate dc<br />

voltage link. The control in a DFIG wind power plant has three levels:<br />

the generator level, the wind turbine level, and the wind power plant<br />

level (Fig. 1) [4]. At the generator level, the RSC controller regulates the<br />

DFIG to achieve one <strong>of</strong> the following two goals: 1) maximum energy<br />

extraction from the wind or 2) compliance with a wind plant control<br />

demand; the GSC controller maintains a constant dc-link voltage and<br />

adjusts reactive power absorbed from the grid <strong>by</strong> the GSC. At the turbine<br />

level, there are a speed controller and a power limitation controller. At a<br />

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low wind speed, the speed controller gives a power reference to the RSC<br />

based on the principle <strong>of</strong> maximum energy extraction. At a high wind<br />

speed, the power limitation controller increases or decreases the pitch<br />

angle <strong>of</strong> the turbine blades to prevent the wind turbine from going over<br />

the rated power. At the wind power plant level, the power production <strong>of</strong><br />

the entire plant is determined based on a grid requirement. The central<br />

control system sends out power references to each individual turbine,<br />

while the local turbine control system ensures that the power reference<br />

from the central control level is reached.<br />

A. GSC Transient and Steady-State Models<br />

Fig. 2 shows the schematic <strong>of</strong> the GSC, in which a dc-link capacitor is on<br />

the left and a three-phase voltage source, representing the voltage at the<br />

point <strong>of</strong> common coupling (PCC) <strong>of</strong> the ac system, is on the right. In the<br />

grid-side converter, the dc bus voltage and reactive power references<br />

determine the current references, which determine the voltages to be<br />

applied in the grid side.1) System Equations: In a synchronous reference<br />

frame, the grid-side voltage equations can be written as<br />

B. Rotor-Side Converter<br />

In the rotor-side converter, the referenced torque and reactive power<br />

determine the current references, which determine the voltages to be<br />

applied in the rotor side.<br />

1) Machine Equations: It is usually assumed that when the stator<br />

and rotor windings are placed sinusoidally and symmetrically,<br />

the magnetical saturation effects and the capacitance <strong>of</strong> all the<br />

windings are negligible. The relation between voltages and<br />

currents on a synchronous reference qd can be written as<br />

Linkage fluxes can be written as<br />

The torque can expressed as<br />

The reactive power yields<br />

Fig. 1. General system scheme.<br />

Active and reactive power provided <strong>by</strong> the grid-side converter can be<br />

written as Pz =3/2(vzq ilq + vzd ild) and Qz =3/2(vzq ild − vzd ilq ).The<br />

dc bus voltage can be expressed as<br />

2) Reference Quantities: The grid-side converter controls the reactive<br />

power and dc bus voltage. The q-axis may be aligned to the grid voltage<br />

allowing active and reactive decoupled control. To control the reactive<br />

power, a i ld reference is computed as<br />

2) Reference Quantities: Orientating the synchronous reference<br />

qd with the stator flux vector so that λ sd =0,therotor current<br />

references can be computed as<br />

Current Loops Implementation: The control <strong>of</strong> the current is done <strong>by</strong><br />

linearizing the current dynamics using the following state feedback.<br />

By neglecting stator current transients, the decoupling leads to<br />

C. Current Controllers Tuning<br />

Controllers have been designed using the so-called internal mode control<br />

(IMC) methodology detailed in [19]. The parameters <strong>of</strong> a PI controller to<br />

obtain a desired time constant τ are obtained as<br />

The active power, which is responsible for the evolution <strong>of</strong> the dc bus<br />

voltage, is controlled <strong>by</strong> the i lq component. A linear controller is usually<br />

designed to control the dc bus voltage. 3) Current Loops Implementation:<br />

The current control is done <strong>by</strong> the following state linearization feedback<br />

[18]:<br />

where the ˆvlq and ˆvld are the output voltages <strong>of</strong> the current controller.<br />

The decoupling leads to<br />

The currents and voltages have been limited according to the converter<br />

operating limits. PI controllers have been designed with anti-windup in<br />

order to prevent control instabilities when the controllerexceed the limit<br />

values.<br />

D. Crowbar Protection<br />

The so-called crowbar is connected to avoid over voltages in the dc bus<br />

due to excessive power flowing from the rotor inverter to the grid-side<br />

converter, guaranteeing ride through operation <strong>of</strong> the generator when<br />

voltage sags or other disturbances occur. The crowbar is triggered when<br />

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the dc voltage reaches a thresh-old vcrow−c and disconnects when it goes<br />

below another thresh-old vcrow−d .<br />

During its operation, the rotor-side converter may be disconnected, as<br />

described in [20], or be kept connected [9] to avoid losing control over<br />

the machine. In this paper, the rotor-side converter is kept connected.<br />

Crowbar operation is a temporary measure developed as a<br />

rotor circuit protection device, long before the advent <strong>of</strong> wind turbine<br />

grid-code regulations. The term describes any device that connects<br />

together the rotor windings <strong>of</strong> a wound-rotor machine in a closed circuit<br />

through a designated resistance, diverting current from the rotor-side<br />

converter, and rapidly deenergizing the rotor. The crowbar absorbs the<br />

initial energy outflow from the machine, while the resistance shortens the<br />

effective decay timescale <strong>of</strong> the rotor flux decay, hence hastening the<br />

demagnetization process. Conventionally, the crowbar is applied for an<br />

extended duration to fully demagnetize the rotor [24], [25]. A crowbar<br />

activation period typically lasts about 120 ms. Unfortunately, this can<br />

lead to a 100-ms postfault period <strong>of</strong> at least 50% reactive power<br />

absorption and associated voltage suppression, and thus, failure to meet<br />

grid-code FRT requirements.<br />

systems are concerned, it is useful to express three-phase quantities xabc<br />

= {xa ,xb ,xc }T in direct and inverse components as<br />

Where x =2/3(xa + axb + a 2 xc), a = e j2π/3 , x p = x p d +jx p q , and x n = x n d + jx n q<br />

. In this section, voltages, currents, and fluxes are regarded as a<br />

composition <strong>of</strong> such positive and negative sequences.<br />

A. Grid-Side Converter Analysis<br />

1) Voltage Equations: Considering two rotating reference frames<br />

at +ωe and −ωe , the voltage equations for the positive and<br />

negative sequences yield<br />

2) Active and Reactive Power: Active and reactive power can be<br />

written as [13]<br />

Where<br />

Fig. 3. Crowbar circuit<br />

When the crowbar is engaged, vector control is lost and the<br />

DFIG resembles a high-resistance singly fed machine, operating at very<br />

high slip [28]. This temporary configuration is a worstcase combination<br />

<strong>of</strong> poor torque output and very high reactive-current demand. This<br />

reactive power absorption can only occur on the stator, acting to suppress<br />

the local fault voltage. The poor torque output worsens the mechanical<br />

stability. It is therefore necessary that crowbar application periods are<br />

minimized. The failure <strong>of</strong> a DFIG system to meet FRT requirements<br />

when using a crowbar for periods <strong>of</strong> 100 ms or more has been reported<br />

[29]. Other more complex FRT techniques have also been suggested.<br />

For example, Kasem et al. [30] presented a simulation study<br />

<strong>of</strong> a scheme employing a crowbar circuit in conjunction with an<br />

additional series static switch to reconfigure the rotor circuit on fault<br />

detection. In this arrangement, the rotor-side converter is totally isolated<br />

from the rotor circuit for the duration <strong>of</strong> the fault and connected in<br />

parallel with the supply-side converter to inject reactive power into the<br />

supply. Because <strong>of</strong> the isolation <strong>of</strong> the rotor converter, however, the<br />

DFIG cannot provide active power in proportion to the retained balanced<br />

fault voltage. Furthermore, the crowbar is applied and the machine is left<br />

uncontrolled for the duration <strong>of</strong> the fault. This means that the potential<br />

benefits <strong>of</strong> the reactive power export from both converters would, to a<br />

large extent, be cancelled <strong>by</strong> the reactive power requirement <strong>of</strong> the<br />

crowbar-activated induction machine operating at high slip. Any practical<br />

implementation <strong>of</strong> such a scheme would also suffer from higher on-state<br />

losses and higher costs compared with a standard crowbar system<br />

because <strong>of</strong> the inclusion <strong>of</strong> the static series switch and the current-sharing<br />

reactances needed to reduce circulating currents during the periods in<br />

which the two converters are connected in parallel.<br />

It can be noted that both active and reactive power have three different<br />

components each, and hence with the four regulatable currents i p ld , i p lq ,<br />

i n ld , and i n lq , only four <strong>of</strong> such six powers can be controlled.<br />

B. Machine-Side Converter Analysis<br />

1) Voltage Equations: Considering two rotating reference frames<br />

at +ωe and −ωe , the voltage equations for the positive and negative<br />

sequences can be obtained as<br />

2) Stator Power Expression: The apparent stator power can be<br />

expressed as<br />

Using(14),wehave<br />

III. CONTROL SCHEME UNDER UNBALANCED CONDITIONS<br />

In this section, nonsymmetrical voltage sags are considered. Such<br />

unbalanced sags imply negative sequence components in all the relevant<br />

quantities. Therefore, important oscillations appear in torque, active and<br />

reactive power. Such oscillations have a pulsation <strong>of</strong> 2ωe . In order to<br />

mitigate such oscillations, an approach taking into account the negative<br />

sequence quantities is required. Such an approach has been discussed in<br />

[12] and [13], and has been applied to the rotor-side converter <strong>of</strong> a DFIG<br />

in [14]. This section analyzes a whole back-to-back converter taking into<br />

account both the positive and negative sequence components, and<br />

proposes a technique to control optimally both the dc bus voltage and the<br />

torque when unbalanced voltage sags occur. As far as unbalanced<br />

Taking into account x i s= x i sd+ jx i sq, and rearranging it gives<br />

where<br />

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Substituting stator currents in (27)<br />

and Q∗l0 for the grid-side converter. It can be noted that P∗l0 , P∗lcos,<br />

and P∗lsin are directly linked to the dc bus voltage.<br />

The dc voltage E is regulated <strong>by</strong> means <strong>of</strong> a linear controller whose<br />

output is the power demanded <strong>by</strong> the grid-side converter. Considering the<br />

power terms Pr0 , Prcos , and Prsin in the rotor side converter, Pr0 can be<br />

regarded as the average power delivered, while Prcos and Prsin are the<br />

rotor power oscillating terms. Such terms will cause dc voltage<br />

oscillations, and hence they can be canceled <strong>by</strong> choosing<br />

Pl0 can be computed as<br />

where P∗E is the output <strong>of</strong> the dc voltage linear controller.<br />

it can be noted that both active and reactive power quantitities<br />

have three different components each, and therefore, with the<br />

four regulable currents i p rd , i p rq , i n rd , and i n rq , only four <strong>of</strong> the<br />

six power quantities can be controlled.<br />

3) Rotor Power Expression: The apparent rotor power can be<br />

expressed as<br />

Using(14),wehave<br />

3 Behaviors <strong>of</strong> DFIG System with SGSC under<br />

Unbalanced Grid Faults<br />

3.1 Dynamic Response <strong>of</strong> Traditional DFIG System under<br />

Unbalanced Grid Faults<br />

In the traditional DFIG configuration, the stator is directly connected to<br />

the grid. An abrupt drop <strong>of</strong> the<br />

grid voltage will directly transmit to the stator terminals <strong>of</strong> DFIG.<br />

According to the law <strong>of</strong> constant flux, additional negative=sequence and<br />

transient DC flux components in the stator flux will appear to guarantee<br />

the total stator flux constancy. Therefore, under unbalanced grid faults,<br />

the generator stator flux will contain positive=sequence, negativesequence<br />

and transient DC flux components. The relationship <strong>of</strong> each<br />

component between stator flux and stator voltage can be expressed as<br />

(37)<br />

Taking into account x i s = x i sd + jx i sq , and rearranging and<br />

analyzing the active rotor power<br />

where<br />

where subscripts 1, 2, DC denote positive=, negative-and zero= (DC)<br />

sequence components in the flux or voltage vectors, respectively. Ψs, ω0<br />

and τs are the stator flux vector, synchronous angular speed and stator<br />

time constant, respectively. Us and U's are the stator voltage vectors<br />

just before and after the grid fault. u's represents the stator voltage<br />

vector after the grid fault.<br />

Each component <strong>of</strong> the stator flux as shown in (1) will induce a voltage<br />

in the rotor according to its amplitude and its relative speed with respect<br />

to the rotor. The induced rotor voltages can be expressed in the stationary<br />

reference frame as [18]<br />

3) Torque Expression: Analogously, electrical torque can be<br />

expressed as<br />

Where<br />

(38)<br />

where Lm, Ls, ur and ωr are the mutual inductance, stator self<br />

inductance, rotor voltage vector and rotor speed, respectively.<br />

Substituting (1) into (2), the induced rotor voltages can be expressed in<br />

the rotor reference frame as Table 1 Amplitudes <strong>of</strong> stator flux<br />

components and their induced voltages in the rotor side under phase-tophase<br />

grid fault.<br />

C. Reference Current Calculation<br />

Since there are eight degrees <strong>of</strong> freedom (the rotor-side currents iprd ,<br />

iprq , inrd , and inrq , and the grid-side currents i p rd , i p rq , i n rd , and i n rq,<br />

eight control objectives may be chosen. This implies that it is not<br />

possible to eliminate all the oscillations provoked <strong>by</strong> the unbalance. In<br />

this paper, the main objective is to ride through voltage dips. Hence, it is<br />

important to keep the torque and dc bus voltage as constant as possible<br />

and to keep reasonable values <strong>of</strong> reactive power. To this end, it has been<br />

chosen to determine the currents to keep certain values<strong>of</strong> Γ∗0 , Γ∗cos ,<br />

Γ∗sin , and Q∗s0 for the rotor-side converter and P∗l0 , P∗lcos, P∗lsin<br />

(40)<br />

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(42)<br />

Splitting the terms R r/s and u r /s into R r+(1-s)R r /s and u r /s+(1-s)u r /s,<br />

(42) can be rewritten as<br />

where s is the slip and superscript r denotes the rotor reference frame.<br />

Table 1 shows the approximate amplitudes <strong>of</strong> each stator flux component<br />

and their induced voltages in the rotor side under phase=to=phase grid<br />

fault. The symbol p denotes the depth <strong>of</strong> the grid fault. As can be seen in<br />

Table 1 and (3), relative large voltages are induced in the rotor side. For<br />

the worst case (s=–0.3 and p=1), the maximum voltage amplitudes<br />

induced <strong>by</strong> the negative=sequence and the transient DC flux components<br />

can reach 1.15pu and 1.3pu, respectively. Considering that the rotor<br />

resistance and the transient inductance are usually very small, if the RSC<br />

cannot generate a voltage equal to the sum <strong>of</strong> the three voltages induced<br />

<strong>by</strong> the stator flux components, the RSC will lose current control<br />

transitorily and rotor over=current will appear. Fig. 2 shows the<br />

simulation results <strong>of</strong> a 2MW traditional DFIG detailed in the Appendix<br />

under phase=to=phase grid fault at PCC. The machine initially operates<br />

with full load and is at 30% super=synchronous speed. The control<br />

scheme implemented in the simulation model is the vector control<br />

algorithm to achieve the decoupling control <strong>of</strong> stator active and reactive<br />

powers and to keep the common dc link voltage constant [4]. No<br />

additional action or control limit is included to constrain the fault current.<br />

As shown in Fig. 2, due to the RSC cannot generate a voltage to<br />

counteract the induced voltage <strong>by</strong> the stator flux components, high rotor<br />

over=current appears and further causes severe oscillation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

electromagnetic torque.<br />

Thus, to avoid the appearance <strong>of</strong> rotor over=current and guarantee the<br />

DFIG system to ride through the grid faults, the stator flux each<br />

component should be effectively restricted, especially for the negative=<br />

sequence and the transient DC flux components due to the relative<br />

speeds <strong>of</strong> which with respect to the rotor windings are rather high.<br />

Besides, the severe torque oscillation, which will increase the fatigues on<br />

the mechanical components <strong>of</strong> WTGS, should also be considered.<br />

3.2 Principle for Suppressing the Rotor Over- Current<br />

As shown in Fig. 1, a SGSC is introduced between the grid and the stator<br />

terminals <strong>of</strong> DFIG. The generator’s stator terminal voltage us becomes<br />

the sum <strong>of</strong> the grid voltage vector u i and SGSC series injected voltage<br />

vector u g which can be expressed in the stationary reference frame as<br />

(41)<br />

Equation (41) indicates that the generator’s stator terminal<br />

voltage can be changed due to the existence <strong>of</strong> the SGSC. Also, the<br />

transition <strong>of</strong> the generator stator flux imposed <strong>by</strong> the stator terminal<br />

voltage during the grid faults can be changed through the output voltage<br />

<strong>of</strong> SGSC. As analyzed in Section 3.1, under unbalanced grid faults, the<br />

negative-sequence and the transient DC flux components will induce<br />

relative large voltages in the rotor side. If the SGSC can generate a<br />

voltage to counteract the negative-sequence and the transient DC flux<br />

components in the stator side, the rotor over=current caused <strong>by</strong> these two<br />

components can be eliminated. On the other hand, if the DFIG equivalent<br />

mechanical output power P mec imported from the rotor shaft is still large,<br />

an abrupt drop <strong>of</strong> the grid voltage positive=sequence component will<br />

cause the increase <strong>of</strong> the positive=sequence current which also maybe<br />

cause the rotor over=current. So the positive-sequence current should<br />

also be restricted.<br />

On the other hand, if the DFIG equivalent mechanical output<br />

power Pmec imported from the rotor shaft is still large, an abrupt drop <strong>of</strong><br />

the grid voltage positive=sequence component will cause the increase <strong>of</strong><br />

the positive=sequence current which also maybe cause the rotor<br />

over=current. So the positive= sequence current should also be restricted.<br />

Neglecting the impedance <strong>of</strong> the series transformer, the electromagnetic<br />

power <strong>of</strong> DFIG can be written as<br />

(43)<br />

In (43), the first term is the power loss in the rotor windings. The third<br />

term is the power input from the excitation power supply to the rotor<br />

side. The remaining terms are the DFIG equivalent mechanical output<br />

power Pmec imported from the rotor shaft, which can be expressed as<br />

(44)<br />

Fig. 3 shows the equivalent circuit <strong>of</strong> DFIG with Rs, Xls, Rr, Xlr, im<br />

and Xm the stator resistance and leakage reactance, rotor resistance and<br />

leakage reactance, magnetizing current and reactance based on (42)-(44).<br />

All the quantities in Fig. 3 are referred to the stator side.<br />

Fig 4. Equivalent circuit <strong>of</strong> DFIG<br />

Neglecting the power loss in the DFIG, the stator active power output Ps<br />

is approximately equal to the electromagnetic power Pem. If Ps is<br />

controlled to zero, Pem is also approximately equal to zero. So do both<br />

the rotor active power output Pr and the DFIG equivalent mechanical<br />

output power Pmec imported from the rotor shaft according to (5) and<br />

(7). Also, if Pem is zero, the relative positive=sequence stator and rotor<br />

currents can also be restricted according to (5), which can increase the<br />

possibility <strong>of</strong> the DFIG system to ride through the grid faults. It is also<br />

important to note that the rest power will be stored in the mechanical<br />

inertia <strong>of</strong> the wind power generation system, causing the speedup <strong>of</strong> the<br />

DFIG. If Pmec is reduced to zero in the super=synchronous speed<br />

operation, the energy absorbed <strong>by</strong> the turbine rotor for a 2MW wind<br />

turbine system with a grid fault is approximately equal to<br />

(45)<br />

where ∆t is the duration <strong>of</strong> the grid fault. The relationship between the<br />

energy and generator speed can be expressed as [19].<br />

(46)<br />

where J is the moment <strong>of</strong> inertia, and ω1 and ω2 are the speed <strong>of</strong><br />

generator before the grid faults instant and after the recovery voltage<br />

instant, respectively. Also, the relationship between the moment <strong>of</strong><br />

inertia J and the inertia constant H is<br />

(47)<br />

where P nom is the rated power <strong>of</strong> generator. Assuming the speed <strong>of</strong><br />

generator before the grid fault is 1.3pu. According to (8)=(10), and with<br />

the parameters provided in the appendix, the calculated speedup <strong>of</strong> the<br />

generator with a 150ms grid fault is approximately 31r/min, which is<br />

about 1.5% <strong>of</strong> the generator speed. Thus, the speedup <strong>of</strong> generator is<br />

quite small, and the scheme <strong>of</strong> controlling the DFIG active power output<br />

Ps to zero is feasible during a short-time grid fault. However, for a longer<br />

time grid fault, the emergency pitch angle regulation scheme should be<br />

used to reduce the incoming torque. Otherwise, over=speed will occur<br />

and the over=speed protection will trip the turbine.<br />

3.3 Active Power Flow <strong>of</strong> DFIG System with SGSC under Grid<br />

Faults<br />

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Fig. 4 shows the active power flow <strong>of</strong> the DFIG system with<br />

SGSC under grid faults during super- synchronous speed operation. As<br />

shown in Fig. 4, if the output power is still large enough during the grid<br />

faults, the surplus active power will flow into the common dc link.<br />

Meanwhile, the active power from the RSC to the common dc link is also<br />

quite large. Considering the limitation <strong>of</strong> the PGSC rating, these active<br />

powers cannot be delivered to the grid through the PGSC. The common<br />

dc link voltage will rise sufficiently and exceed its safe limitation.<br />

Therefore, during the grid faults, the active power output <strong>of</strong> DFIG should<br />

be scaled with the remaining voltage or reduced to an even lower value to<br />

protect the dc link capacitor. Otherwise, an additional dc link crowbar is<br />

needed. Thus, the reduction <strong>of</strong> DFIG active power output not only<br />

increases the possibility <strong>of</strong> the DFIG system to ride through the grid<br />

faults, but also can effectively protect the dc link capacitance.<br />

Note that when the DFIG system operates in the<br />

sub=synchronous speed, the surplus active power through the SGSC to<br />

the common dc link can be partially or completely consumed <strong>by</strong> DFIG<br />

through RSC. Therefore the regulation stress <strong>of</strong> the PGSC in the<br />

sub=synchronous speed is smaller than the one in the super=synchronous<br />

speed. Similarly, when DFIG system operates in the synchronous speed,<br />

although the active power from the SGSC cannot be consumed <strong>by</strong> DFIG<br />

through RSC anymore, the active power from the RSC to the common dc<br />

link is zero. So the regulation stress <strong>of</strong> the PGSC in the synchronous<br />

speed is also smaller than the one in the super= synchronous speed. So<br />

the super=synchronous speed operation condition is the worst case<br />

scenario for the PGSC to keep the common dc link voltage constant. And<br />

for this reason, we only show the simulations <strong>of</strong> DFIG in the supersynchronous<br />

speed operation for the sake <strong>of</strong> brevity in Section 5.<br />

the rotor side and accelerate its attenuation and the positive=sequence<br />

stator flux controller is only used to control the generator stator<br />

positive=sequence flux component to match the remaining grid voltage.<br />

A detailed description <strong>of</strong> the proposed control scheme <strong>of</strong> DFIG system<br />

with SGSC for the grid unbalanced faults ride=through is given as<br />

follows: For RSC and PGSC, the control schemes are still the same as the<br />

normal grid conditions. But for the RSC, the active power output<br />

command <strong>of</strong> DFIG is set to zero to increase the possibility <strong>of</strong> the DFIG<br />

system to ride through the grid faults and effectively protects the dc link<br />

capacitance as mentioned in Section 3. For the PGSC, an area <strong>of</strong> concern<br />

with unbalanced grid faults is the stabilization <strong>of</strong> the common dc link<br />

voltage. This was checked in simulation and it was found that the gridside<br />

converter could be controlled to avoid over=current during the<br />

unbalanced grid faults [11, 20]. Also, with other improved control<br />

scheme <strong>of</strong> PGSC such as the one mentioned in [21] the common dc link<br />

voltage can be more readily stabilized. We have focused our<br />

investigations on the control scheme <strong>of</strong> SGSC, and the control scheme <strong>of</strong><br />

PGSC isn’t discussed too much for the sake <strong>of</strong> brevity. The SGSC is<br />

activated to control the each component <strong>of</strong> stator flux as shown in Fig. 5<br />

when a grid fault is detected.<br />

Fig. 5 shows the proposed controller <strong>of</strong> SGSC including three<br />

parts: 1) DFIG stator flux estimation and decomposition; 2) Generation<br />

<strong>of</strong> stator positive= sequence flux component command and the setting <strong>of</strong><br />

stator negative=sequence and transient DC flux components command;<br />

3) Implementation <strong>of</strong> SGSC output series voltage control. The<br />

generator’s total stator flux can be calculated as follows using the<br />

measured stator terminal voltage and current in the stationary reference<br />

frame<br />

(48)<br />

Based on the analysis in Section 3.1, Ψs contains Ψs1, Ψs2<br />

and ΨsDC. In the positive reference frame (PRF) rotating at the speed <strong>of</strong><br />

ω0, Ψs1 will be changed to a dc component while Ψs2 and ΨsDC will<br />

be changed to ac components at the frequencies <strong>of</strong> 2ω0 and ω0,<br />

respectively. Similarly, in the negative reference frame (NRF) rotating at<br />

the speed <strong>of</strong> –ω0, Ψs2 will be changed to a dc component while Ψs1 and<br />

ΨsDC will be changed to ac components at the frequencies <strong>of</strong> 2ω0 and<br />

ω0, respectively. Thus, Ψs in the PRF and NRF can be expressed as<br />

Fig 5. Active power flow <strong>of</strong> DFIG system with SGSC under grid faults<br />

during super- synchronous speed operation<br />

4 Proposed Control Scheme for Grid Unbalanced<br />

Faults Ride-through<br />

During normal grid condition, the RSC and PGSC are<br />

controlled in conventional manners to achieve the decoupling control <strong>of</strong><br />

stator active and reactive powers and to keep the common dc link voltage<br />

constant, respectively [4]. And for the SGSC, it is maintained in a zero<br />

voltage vector switch state to eliminate harmonic losses as shown in [14,<br />

17]. During the severe unbalanced grid faults, Flannery and<br />

Venkataramanan [17] proposed that the negative-sequence component <strong>of</strong><br />

the stator flux is kept at zero to reject the undesirable effect to the rotor<br />

side while the positive=sequence component <strong>of</strong> the stator flux is to scale<br />

in proportion to the positive-sequence component <strong>of</strong> the remaining grid<br />

flux to eliminate the transient DC flux component and to restrain the<br />

surplus active power flowing into the common dc link. As a result, in<br />

order to avoid the appearance <strong>of</strong> the transient DC flux component and<br />

provide the required system response, the positive=sequence stator flux<br />

controller must be carefully tuned. On the other hand, since the transient<br />

DC flux component is not considered as the control target to be<br />

restricted, once the transient DC flux component appears, it will only be<br />

damped with the stator time constant τs. However, τs is relatively big<br />

(about a few seconds) for a MW-class DFIG, thus the attenuation speed<br />

<strong>of</strong> the transient DC flux component is rather slow.<br />

Therefore, in order to overcome the problems highlighted<br />

above, we propose that the transient DC component is controlled in the<br />

negative=sequence stator flux controller to suppress the adverse effect on<br />

(49)<br />

Applying two notch=filters [16] at 2ω0 and ω0 to remove the<br />

negative=sequence and transient DC flux components, the<br />

positive=sequence flux component in the PRF can be obtained.<br />

Analogously, applying a notch=filter at 2ω0 to remove the<br />

positive=sequence flux component in the NRF, the negative=sequence<br />

and the transient DC flux components can be obtained. Thus, after<br />

filtering, the flux components in the PRF and NRF reduce to<br />

(50)<br />

In addition, during unbalanced grid faults, the grid flux Ψg<br />

(including stator ohmic drop) can be expressed in the PRF as<br />

(51)<br />

Equation (16) indicates Ψg also contains positive-sequence,<br />

negative=sequence and transient DC flux component, which can be<br />

expressed in the PRF as<br />

(52)<br />

Similarly, applying two notch-filters at 2ω0 and ω0 to remove the<br />

negative=sequence and transient DC flux components, the positivesequence<br />

component <strong>of</strong> the grid flux can be obtained. This is the<br />

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command for the positive-sequence stator flux component controller,<br />

viz.:<br />

(52)<br />

For the negative=sequence and transient DC flux components, they are<br />

undesirable components in the stator flux. Thus the command for these<br />

two flux components is zero, viz.:<br />

(53)<br />

The proportional regulators are driven <strong>by</strong> the error between the command<br />

and their respective estimated stator flux components expressed in (14)<br />

and (15). Note that the command for the positive=sequence stator flux<br />

component controller has some important characteristics which are<br />

summarized as follows: 1) Equation (18) also can indicate the grid flux<br />

during normal operation. Thus when the grid fault is cleared, this<br />

command can bring the stator flux back to the normal value. 2) A<br />

reduction <strong>of</strong> the stator positive=sequence flux component also causes a<br />

reduction <strong>of</strong> corresponding induced rotor voltage. This means that there<br />

is more rotor voltage margin to generate a voltage to control the stator<br />

active power output <strong>of</strong> DFIG to zero and to counteract the remaining<br />

negative=sequence and transient DC flux components which cannot be<br />

rejected completely <strong>by</strong> SGSC due to the proportional regulator.<br />

modulation (SVPWM) techniques. The technique is exemplified for the<br />

rotor-side converter case in Fig. 7.<br />

5 SIMULATION RESULTS<br />

In order to evaluate the ride=through capability <strong>of</strong> the proposed control<br />

scheme, the system has been simulated on a 2MW DFIG wind turbine<br />

with SGSC.<br />

In order to evaluate the ride-through capability <strong>of</strong> the proposed scheme,<br />

the system has been simulated with severe voltage sags, making the<br />

control work at the maximum output voltage and dealing with the<br />

triggering <strong>of</strong> the crowbar protection. The system under study is a 2- MW<br />

DFIG-based wind turbine, where a two-phase 50% type E [22] voltage<br />

sag <strong>of</strong> 2s has been applied. The data <strong>of</strong> the simulated system may be seen<br />

in Table I. In order to compare the presented control scheme and some<br />

existing techniques, the following three cases have been studied.<br />

In this study, there are two cases analyzed, 1 st is without controller and<br />

2 nd is with controller techniques.<br />

Fig. 8 shows the simulation results <strong>of</strong> the DFIG system for<br />

double phase to ground fault near PCC. It is <strong>of</strong> unbalanced grid faults<br />

double phase-to-ground fault. As analyzed in [22], the propagation <strong>of</strong><br />

voltage dips through different types <strong>of</strong> transformer connections results in<br />

a different performance <strong>of</strong> voltage dips on the secondary side <strong>of</strong> the<br />

transformers.<br />

The different voltage dips types through a delta/Yg<br />

transformer seen at the DFIG stator terminal compared to all types <strong>of</strong><br />

unbalanced grid faults at PCC are shown in Fig6. The proposed control<br />

schemes have been evaluated <strong>by</strong> means <strong>of</strong> simulations with one balanced<br />

and one unbalanced voltage sags.<br />

Unbalanced voltage sag<br />

Fig 6. Positive and Negative Components Calculation<br />

1) Positive and Negative Components Calculation: The positive and<br />

negative sequence components calculation is done <strong>by</strong> using the Clarke<br />

transformation, rotating either e jωet or e −jωet , and finally, applying a notchfilter<br />

at 2ω e to eliminate the opposite sequence. The technique is<br />

exemplified in Fig. 6. For the rotor voltages and currents, the rotation<br />

applied is either e j (ωe −ωr )t or e j (−ωe −ωr )t .<br />

2) Reference Orientation: The rotating references have been aligned with<br />

the stator voltage so that v p sq =0. Nevertheless, v p sq has not been<br />

substituted in previous expressions for the sake <strong>of</strong> describing general<br />

results. Orientation may be done computing the required θ0 assuming a<br />

constant ωe or using a PLL [21] to determine both ω e and θ 0 .<br />

Fig 7. Control technique<br />

3) Output Voltage Calculation<br />

The output voltages calculation is done <strong>by</strong> summing the resulting<br />

positive and negative sequence voltages in the stationary reference frame.<br />

For the line side<br />

For the rotor side<br />

(54)<br />

The MATLAB based proposed test system is as shown in Fig 6. The<br />

DFIG wind turbine system is connected to the grid <strong>by</strong> using a step-up<br />

transformer. The subsystem with DFIG wind turbine set with and without<br />

controller was shown in Fig 9 and 10a. The back to back converter<br />

subsystem for Fig 8a is shown in Fig 10b and crowbar control scheme is<br />

as shown in Fig 10c. This converter converts Ac to DC at different<br />

voltages and frequency to DC supply and then to a constant magnitude<br />

and frequency AC voltage and current <strong>by</strong> using an inverter. As wind<br />

speed is varying with time and with season, the generator which is<br />

connected to the turbine will also have different speeds <strong>of</strong> rotation, so<br />

mechanical input varies, so voltage and current varies. Also because <strong>of</strong><br />

generator speed varies with wind speed, output electrical power<br />

frequency from the generator also varies. Therefore the necessity to<br />

convert AC to DC and finally to AC has come to light.<br />

A50% voltage sag has been applied to two phases leaving the<br />

third phase undisturbed. The disturbance is produced <strong>by</strong> fault generator<br />

block as shown in Fig 8. The disturbance has been analyzed in a 2MW<br />

wind turbine was generating with a wind <strong>of</strong> 20m/s. The DFIG stator and<br />

rotor side voltages are shown in Fig 11 without controller. There is a<br />

fault between 0.1to0.2sec. The generator torque and DC bus voltage<br />

response are illustrated in Fig. 12 and 17. It can be seen that although the<br />

inverse sequence provokes an oscillating flux, an almost constant torque<br />

can be achieved after a transient. As it has been stated, the constant<br />

torque implies oscillating rotor power which can be compensated with<br />

oscillating grid-side converter power. Using the proposed technique, the<br />

resulting DC bus voltage has minimized the oscillations.<br />

The stator voltages in positive and negative sequence and the<br />

abc stator voltages and currents are illustrated in Fig. 13. Active and<br />

reactive power is illustrated in Fig.14. It can be seen that while the total<br />

power (depending on the torque) is almost constant, stator and rotor<br />

active power are <strong>of</strong> oscillating nature.<br />

(55)<br />

The resulting voltages are limited according to the converter rating. The<br />

final voltages can be applied using standard space vector pulse width<br />

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Fig 8, MATLAB/ SIMULINK based test system, DFIG wind turbine<br />

system connected to Grid<br />

Fig 10c,Crowbar Controller subsystem<br />

Case A: DFIG system without crowbar and back-to-back<br />

controller schemes<br />

Fig 9, DFIG wind turbine subsystem block without controller<br />

Fig 11a, DFIG stator and rotor side voltages without crowbar controller<br />

and back-to-back controller<br />

Fig 10a, DFIG wind turbine subsystem block with back-to-back<br />

controller and crowbar controller scheme designed using MATLAB<br />

Fig 11b, zoomed view <strong>of</strong> DFIG stator and rotor side voltages without<br />

crowbar controller and back-to-back controller<br />

Fig 10b, Controller subsystem block – back to back AC converter<br />

Fig 11c, dqo voltages for stator side voltage <strong>of</strong> induction generator<br />

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It can also be identified that, voltage harmonics are very high, it means,<br />

there is some distortions in voltage waveforms even under steady-state<br />

conditions.<br />

Case B: DFIG system with crowbar and without back-toback<br />

controller scheme<br />

Fig 12 Torque response to a un-balanced voltage sag<br />

Fig 13 Stator voltage in positive and negative sequence<br />

The DFIG system connected to grid is considered in this case with<br />

crowbar protection only. The crowbar works as a short circuit <strong>of</strong> rotor <strong>by</strong><br />

using diode rectifier with resistance connection and IGBT to control the<br />

current through the resistance. The circuit is shown in figure 10c.<br />

A symmetrical fault occurred at 0.1seconds and cleared in 0.5seconds<br />

with crowbar protection for second case and the waveforms for stator and<br />

rotor voltages for DFIG system is as shown in Fig 17a and 17b.<br />

Comparing with Fig 11a and 11b, the voltages also decreased as in with<br />

and without crowbar protection. With crowbar, the system will be<br />

protected, so no voltage surge is produced in post-fault condition. Hence<br />

we can strongly say that crowbar protection is highly essential for basic<br />

backup protection for DFIG system connected to grid.<br />

In Fig 19, the DC voltage and grid voltage waveforms were shown.<br />

During the fault, excess voltage is reached to dc supply and is stored in<br />

the capacitor bank. It can also be identified that, with the proposed<br />

controller, the stator voltage and rotor voltage phase sequence is changed<br />

as in Fig 14, there-<strong>by</strong> maintaining nearly constant voltage near the grid.<br />

Fig 14 Rotor, stator and total active power<br />

Fig 17a. DFIG stator and rotor side voltages with crowbar controller as<br />

shown in Fig 10c and without back-to-back controller<br />

Fig 15 stator reactive power<br />

When comparing figures 11 and 16, during a double phase to ground<br />

fault, there has been severe change in the voltage waveforms. Without<br />

controller, the system after post-fault is very unstable as seen in Fig 8,<br />

voltage has never reached its rated value amd is decreasing in nature. But<br />

in Fig 16, which is same system with same fault conditions, two<br />

unhealthy phases got disturbed, and the system after post- fault is very<br />

stable. It has reached its pre fault state very immediately.<br />

In Fig 13, positive and negative sequence components were shown. The<br />

positive sequence voltage has changed very drastically and there been<br />

some surges for negative sequence components. It can be observed from<br />

Fig 14 and 15, during the fault conditions, the real and reactive powers<br />

were disturbed very drastically. The real power from rotor, stator and the<br />

composition <strong>of</strong> both were changed as in Fig 14. I this, rotor real power<br />

which is nearly -10KW, has become oscillating and is sinusoidal during<br />

the fault and many oscillations in stator real power.<br />

The system without crowbar and back-to-back controller, the system will<br />

slowly becomes unstable even after the fault has been cleared. It can be<br />

observed from Fig 11a and 11b, slowly voltages on rotor and stator side<br />

degrades and current increases, torque also changes its polarity, hence it<br />

leads to system collapse. Hence, crowbar has to be used as a primary<br />

requirement for system protection.<br />

Fig 17b. Grid side voltages with crowbar controller and without back-toback<br />

controller<br />

The fault moves in the direction <strong>of</strong> DFIG side than towards grid side, so<br />

there is a very high dip in the voltage waveforms near the generator side<br />

than on grid side. This is due to the fact that grid is a very strong system<br />

and disturbance effects it very little compared to a wind generator<br />

system.<br />

Case C: DFIG system with crowbar protection and with<br />

back-to-back controller schemes<br />

The system with DFIG connected to grid is now protected with crowbar<br />

protection and back-to-back controller schemes.<br />

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Fig 18, DFIG stator and rotor side voltages<br />

been considered, detailing the control scheme <strong>of</strong> each converter while<br />

considering the effect <strong>of</strong> the crow-bar protection. The control strategy has<br />

been validated <strong>by</strong> means <strong>of</strong> simulations for balanced and unbalanced<br />

voltage sags.<br />

In this paper the modeling <strong>of</strong> a DFIG, considering the behavior <strong>of</strong> the<br />

generator when transients in the stator voltage occur, was developed.<br />

Thanks to this model, that permits to predict the performance <strong>of</strong> a DFIG<br />

under faulty scenarios, a novel control strategy for the rotor side<br />

controllers, oriented to enhance its response during severe voltage sags,<br />

was proposed. This strategy is based on using the measured stator current<br />

values as the set-point for the rotor current controller during the fault. As<br />

it has been demonstrated, in this way, it is possible to synthesize a current<br />

in the stator in opposition to the currents generated during the fault,<br />

preventing thus the stator/rotor windings from suffering over-currents,<br />

with no need <strong>of</strong> using crowbar circuits.<br />

The performance <strong>of</strong> this strategy was tested and compared with and<br />

without control algorithm, already presented in previous works, which<br />

makes the active and reactive power references equal to zero during the<br />

fault. The analytical equations and the simulation models based on<br />

MATLAB have shown that the fluctuations in the stator and rotor<br />

currents, as well as in the electromagnetic torque were reduced <strong>by</strong> the<br />

half, when using the new proposed strategy in case <strong>of</strong> severe balanced<br />

and unbalanced voltage sags at the PCC.<br />

Therefore the results presented in this paper, show that it is possible to<br />

control the stability <strong>of</strong> a DFIG during severe contingencies in the power<br />

network, without the need <strong>of</strong> external auxiliary circuits.<br />

7 REFERENCES<br />

Fig 19, C voltage and grid voltages<br />

Compared to the system with crowbar alone protection and the system<br />

with crow bar and rotor-side and grid-side back-to-back controllers, post<br />

fault condition is very stable. The voltage <strong>of</strong> DFIG doesn’t degrade after<br />

the fault has cleared and reaches its pre-fault state immediately <strong>by</strong><br />

observing Fig 17 and 18. The grid side voltage also remains same during<br />

and post-fault condition. The DC output voltage from the back-to-back<br />

controller is decreased because it supplies power to the system and<br />

maintains voltage balance during the total period <strong>of</strong> action.<br />

Comparing Fig 11c and Fig 20, the direct and quadrature axis voltages<br />

has improved a lot. In this advanced control schemes, d and q axis<br />

voltages are maintained nearly constant unlike in case without<br />

controllers.<br />

Fig 20, dqo voltages for stator side voltage <strong>of</strong> induction generator with<br />

crowbar and b2b controller<br />

6 Conclusions<br />

The present chapter has presented presents a control technique for doubly<br />

fed induction generators under different voltage disturbances. The current<br />

reference is chosen in the positive and negative sequences so that the<br />

torque and the DC voltage are kept stable during balanced and<br />

unbalanced conditions. Both rotor-side and grid-side converters have<br />

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