TRASMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND POWER WITH LOW-FREQUENCY

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1 TRASMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND POWER WITH LOW-FREQUENCY T.MANI MOHAN SAI M.Tech Student Scholar, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, KSRM College of Engineering, Kadapa Kadapa (Dt), A.P, India Abstract The possible solutions for transmitting power from wind farms are HVAC, Line commutated HVDC and voltage source based HVDC (VSC-HVDC). In this paper Low Frequency AC (LFAC) transmission system is used for interconnecting the offshore wind farms for improving the transmission capability and also the dc collecting system with series connected wind turbines are used at the offshore to reduce the cabling requirement. A method to design the systems components and control is set forth. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the systems performance. Index Terms power transmission, thyristor converters, water power cables, wind energy I. INTRODUCTION under The increasing interest and gradual necessity of using renewable resources, such as wind, solar and hydro energy, have brought about strong demands for economic and technical innovation and development. Especially offshore wind farms are expected to represent a significant component of the future electric generation selection due to larger space availability and better wind energy potential in offshore locations. In particular, both the interconnection and transmission of renewable resources into synchronous grid systems have become promising topics to power engineers. For robust and reliable transmission and interconnection of renewable energy into central grid system switching systems have been used, Since switching systems can easily permit excellent controllability of electrical signals such as changing voltage and frequency levels, and power factors. At present, high-voltage ac (HVAC) and high-voltage dc (HVDC) are well-known technologies for transmission [1]. HVAC transmission is advantageous because it is somewhat simple to design the protection system and to change voltage levels using transformers. However, the substantial charging current due to the high capacitance of submarine ac power cables reduces the active power transmission capacity and limits the transmission distance. Therefore HVAC is adopted for relatively short underwater transmission distances. HVAC is applied for distances less than 6km for offshore wind power transmission. The High Voltage AC and High Voltage DC transmission systems are well known technologies for electric power transmission. To overcome the disadvantage of HVAC system & HVDC system is developed. Depending on type of power electronic device used, HVDC system are classified into linecommutated converter HVDC (LCC-HVDC) using thyristors P.DURGA PRASAD Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, KSRM College of Engineering, Kadapa Kadapa (Dt), A.P, India durgaprasad.gvl@gmail.com and voltage-source converter HVDC (VSC-HVDC) using selfcommutated devices, for example, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) [4]. The major advantage of HVDC technology is that it imposes effectively no limit on transmission distance due to the absence of reactive current in the transmission line. LCC-HVDC systems can transmit power up to 1GW with high reliability [1]. LCCs consume reactive power from the ac grid and introduce low-order harmonics, which results in the requirement for auxiliary equipment, such as, ac filters, static synchronous compensators and capacitor banks. In contrast, VSC-HVDC systems are able to independently regulate active and reactive power exchanged with the onshore grid and the offshore ac collection grid [7]. The reduced efficiency and cost of the converters are the drawbacks of VSC-HVDC systems. Power levels and reliability are lower than those of LCC-HVDC. HVDC is applied for distances greater than 1 km for offshore wind power transmission. Due to limitations of HVAC and HVDC system, High Voltage Low Frequency AC (LFAC) transmission has been proposed as a new alternative technology for transmission for power. The LFAC transmission system utilizes an intermediate frequency for transmission of power. The main advantage of LFAC transmission technology is increase in power transmission capacity over long distance and considerable cost saving due to reduction in cabling requirement, decrease in cable charging current and losses are reduced compared to conventional transmission system. Thus investment cost and maintenance cost is reduced as well, since frequency converter that synchronizes the frequency between LFAC system and power grid. Also, this system improves voltage stability and no space charge accumulated due to the use of low frequency. The required dc voltage level can be built by using the series connection of wind turbines [12]. For example, multi MW permanent-magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) with fully rated power converters (Type-4 turbines) are commonly used in offshore wind plants [1]. By eliminating grid-side inverters, a medium-voltage dc collection system can be formed by interconnecting the rectified output of the generators. The main reason for using a dc collection system with LFAC transmission is that the wind turbines would not need to be redesigned to output low-frequency ac power, which would lead to larger, heavier, and costlier magnetic components such as step-up transformers and generators. The proposed LFAC system could be built with commercially available power system components, such as the receiving-end

2 transformers and submarine ac cables designed for regular power frequency. The phase-shift transformer used at the sending end could be a 6-Hz transformer de rated by a factor of three, with the same rated current but only one-third of the original rated voltage. Another advantage of the proposed LFAC scheme is its feasibility for multi terminal transmission, since the design of multi terminal HVDC is complicated, but the analysis of such an application is not undertaken herein. In summary, LFAC transmission could be an attractive technical solution for medium-distance transmission i.e., 5 to 16km. The structure of this paper is as follows. The principle and configuration of the system is briefly explained in section II. The control strategies of converters are discussed in section III.The selection of the major system components and filter design are discussed in Section IV. Simulation results are presented in section V and finally section VI concludes this paper. inverter at the sending end can synchronize with the 2-Hz voltage, and starts the transmission of power. A. Inverter control III. CONTROL OF LFAC SYSTEM II. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION AND CONTROL Fig. 1. Configuration of the proposed LFAC transmission system. The proposed LFAC transmission system is shown in Fig.1, assuming a 6-Hz main grid at the receiving end. At the sending end, a medium-voltage dc collection bus is formed by rectifying the ac output power of series-connected wind turbines. A DC/AC 12-pulse thyristor-based inverter is used to convert dc power to low-frequency (2-Hz) ac power. It is connected to a three-winding transformer that raises the voltage to a higher level for transmission. AC filters are connected at the inverter side to suppress the 11th, 13th, and higher-order (23rd) current harmonics, and to supply reactive power to the converter. At the receiving end, a three-phase (6- pulse) bridge cycloconverter is used to generate 2-Hz voltage. A filter (Lf - Cf) is connected at the low-frequency side to decrease the amplitude of the harmonics generated by the cycloconverter. At the grid side, ac filters are used to suppress odd current harmonics, and to supply reactive power to the cycloconverter. Simply put, the operation of the LFAC transmission system can be understood to proceed as follows. First, the cycloconverter at the receiving end is activated, and the submarine power cables are energized by a 2-Hz voltage. In the meantime, the dc collection bus at the sending end is charged using power from the wind turbines. After the 2Hz voltage and the dc bus voltage are established, the 12-pulse Fig. 2. Sending-end inverter control. The control structure for the sending-end inverter is shown in Fig. 2. The controller regulates the dc bus voltage Vdc by adjusting the voltage V at the inverter terminals. The cosine wave crossing method is applied to determine the firing angle. Firing pulses are generated by the crossing points of both wanted and threshold voltages of reference voltages. This method demonstrates superior properties, such as minimum total harmonic distortion of output voltages, and simplicity of implementation. The firing angle for the 12 pulse inverter is given by α s = cos. (1) Where Vp is the peak value of the cosine wave, V* is the reference voltage and α s is sending end inverter firing angle. Note that V< and 9<α<18 (using common notation), since the converter is in the inverter mode of operation. V And V S (line-to-neutral, rms) are related by V= cos(α ).... (2) A phase-locked loop (PLL) provides the angular position of the ac-side voltage, which is necessary for generating the firing pulses of the thyristors. It also outputs the rms value of the fundamental component of the voltage, which is used in the firing-angle calculation. B. Cycloconverter control The operating-frequency level in this work is limited to 2-Hz, since frequencies higher than 2Hz can cause high THD (Total Harmonic Distortion). The voltage level and phase angle are also controlled by the application of the cosine wave-crossing method, since electrical power (capacity) can be regulated by the voltage level and phase angle.

3 The firing angles of the phase-a positive and negative converters (denoted as a P and a N Fig4) are α and α respectively. For the positive converter, the average voltage at the 2-Hz terminals is given by V = cos(α )... (3) Where VG is the rms value of the line-to-neutral voltage at the grid side, and is the turns ratio of the transformers. The condition α ap +α an = ensures that average voltages with the same polarity are generated from the positive and negative converter at the 2-Hz terminals. The firing pulses S ap and S an are not simultaneously applied to both converters, in order to obtain a non circulating current mode of operation. This functionality is embedded in the Bank Selector block of Fig. 5, which operates based on the filtered current. Note (for later use) that the maximum line-to-neutral rms value of the 2-Hz cycloconverter voltage is V =... (4) C. The LFAC transmission Fig. 5. Modulator for phase. The models of the 5/3 Hz LFAC transmission and the 5 Hz conventional AC transmission are shown in Fig. 6. Both ends of each system are the 4 kv voltage sources, but with different frequencies. The cables are model as lines. The series impedance is leakage impedance of the transformers. a A A A A A A a b B B B B bb B c C C C C cc C 5 /3 Hz a A A A A aa A Fig 3 Receiving end control. The voltage ratio is defined as r = (5) In practice, the theoretical maximum value r=1cannot be achieved, due to the leakage inductance of the transformers, which was ignored in the analysis. Fig. 4. Details of the signal conditioning block. (LPF= firstorder low-pass filters, with time constants equal to.5 s and.1 s for the voltage and current respectively.) B b B B B B b B c C C C C cc C 5 Hz Fig. 6.The conventional 5 Hz AC transmission system Vs.The LFAC transmission system with 5/3 Hz. The transmitting power is decided by the transmitting angle when both the sending end voltage and the receiving end voltage are fixed. Varying the transmitting angle from to 18 degree, e.g. in Fig. 7, the transmitting power of the 5/3 Hz system is approximately 3 times of the conventional 5 Hz AC system at any transmission angle over e.g. 1 km length cable. Using a load with a constant power factor (.8 lag) to replace the voltage source at the receiving end and increasing the cable length and the transmission angle, the PV curve with no compensation are plotted in Fig. 8. The PV curves of the both 5 and 5/3 Hz systems are moving left when increasing the cable length, meaning that the transmitting power is reduced accordingly. The red line represents the PV curve of the conventional 5 Hz AC system with the length of 125 km whilst the solid and the dash blue lines represent the PV curves of the 5/3 Hz LFAC system in the length of 125 km and 375 km, respectively. It is observed that the maximum power transmission occurs at the break point in each system. The 5/3 Hz system can transmit much more power than the conventional 5 Hz system over the same distance. It also

4 shows smaller deviation from the nominal value than the 5 Hz system given the same transmission power and distance, indicating the LFAC system requires less reactive power compensation than the conventional AC system. Furthermore, increasing the transmission distance to 375 km, the 5/3 Hz system can still transmit more power with lower voltage drop comparing to the conventional AC system at the distance of 125 km. This implies the transmission capability of the LFAC system is much better than the conventional AC system. frequency, for instance, the 5 Hz or 5/3 Hz. The wind turbine with a doubly-fed induction generator has two tracks: the stator connects directly to the grid and the rotor connects to the grid though the partial size converter. The doubly-fed generator is excited by the converter through the rotor circuit. The active power output is controlled according to the wind speed and the control strategy, e.g. the maximum power tracking strategy. Due to the lower grid frequency in the LFAC system, to produce the same amount of power without damage generators may require modified design to the wind turbine system e.g. increased rotating mass and number of poles and winding design for the induction generators. IV. DESIGN OF LFAC SYSTEM A. Main power Components Fig. 7. The transmitting power in different system with different frequencies. Fig.7. PV curves of LFAC system and conventional AC system with fixed power factor and varying transmission distance. D. Fixed Speed Wind Turbine Based Wind Farm Gird Integration The wind turbines generally have 3 types: fixed-speed wind turbines with a capacitor compensator, induction generators with full size back-to-back converters and wind turbines with doubly-fed induction generators. The induction generator with the full-size converter can be integrated to the LFAC system without any difficulty, because the converter isolates the generator from the grid by the DC connection. The grid-side inverter has a Phase Lock Loop (PLL) to synchronize the The main power components are selected based on a steadystate analysis of the LFAC transmission system shown in Fig.1, under the following assumptions: Only fundamental components of voltages and currents are considered. The receiving end is modelled as a 2-Hz voltage source of nominal magnitude. The power losses of the reactor, thyristors, filters, and transformers are ignored. The resistances and leakage inductances of transformers are neglected. The ac filters are represented by an equivalent capacitance corresponding to the fundamental frequency. The design is based on rated operating conditions (i.e., maximum power output). At the steady state, the average value of the dc current isi dc equal to I w, so the power delivered from the wind turbines is P w =V dc I w... (6) For the 12-pulse converter, the rms value of the current at the transmission side is I =... (7) Hence, eq. (7) can be written as I=MP w... (8) With M = dc... (9) Let V = V < and I denote the phasors of the line-to neutral voltage and line current, respectively. Since I lags V by αs, it follows that. I=I (18-αs) The active power delivered by the 12-pulse inverter is given by P S =P w =3V S Icos(α S -18 )=-3V S Icos(α S )>...(1) Substitution of eq. (8) into eq. (1) yields

5 Cos (α S ) =... (11) And Sin (α S ) =1... (12) The reactive power generated from the 12-pulse inverter is Qs=3V S Isin(α S -18 )=-3V S Isin(α S )... (13) From (1)-(13), it follows that Q S =P S tan(α s ) = P 9M V 1... (14) Negative sign in (13) and (14) indicates that the 12- pulse inverter always absorbs reactive power.eq. (14) shows that can be expressed as a function QS = f (PS, VS). Fig. 9.Equivalent circuit of the LFAC transmission system at fundamental frequency. Based on the aforementioned analysis, the steady-state singlephase equivalent circuit of the LFAC transmission system is shown in Fig.9. The equivalent capacitance of the sending-end ac filters at the fundamental frequency is C eq. The transmission line is modeled by π equivalent (positivesequence) circuit using lumped parameters The well-known hyperbolic trigonometric expressions for Z and Y are used. Given a power rating of a wind power plant P rated the maximum reactive power that is absorbed by the 12- pulse inverter can be estimated according to eq. (14), which yields Q = P 3M V 1... (15) Where V is the nominal transmission voltage level (line-toline rms). Here, it is assumed that the sending-end ac filters supply the rated reactive power to the inverter. Therefore C =... (16) Whereω e =2π2 rad/s. In addition, the apparent power rating of the transformer at the sending end S should satisfy S > P + Q = 3P MV (17) Ac filters are designed to supply all reactive power to the 12- pulse inverter at the sending end, the reactive power injected into the 2-Hz side of the cycloconverter can be estimated by using Q IM{Y }V + w 3C V 3I IM{Z } w L... (18) 3I Where the first two terms represent the reactive power generated from the cable and the capacitor of the LC filter, and the last two terms represent the reactive power consumed by the cable and the LC filter s inductor. The active power injected into the cyclo-converter from the 2- Hz side can be estimated by using P P Re{V }V 3I Re{Z }... (19) Where the last two terms represent the power loss of the cable. B. Filter Design At the sending end, the 12-pulse inverter produces harmonics of order m=12k±1, k =1, 2,.., and can be represented as a source of harmonic currents. These current harmonics are filtered by two single-tuned filters for the 11th and 13th harmonic, and one damped filter for higher-order harmonics ( 23rd). Generally, the filter design is dependent on the reactive power supplied at fundamental frequency (also known as the filter size) and the required quality factor (QF). The total reactive power requirement of these filters can be estimated based on eq. (18). Here, it is assumed that the total reactive power requirement is divided equally among the three filters. A high quality factor (QF = 1) is used for the singletuned filters, and a low quality factor (QF = 1) is used for the high-pass damped filter. Finally, with the capacitance and quality factor known, the inductance and resistance of each filter can be determined. With such filter design, the 12-pulserelated current harmonics originating at the sending end are essentially absent from the transmission line. At the receiving end, there are two groups of filters, namely, the ac filters at the 6-Hz side and the LC filter at the 2-Hz side. At the 6-Hz side, if the cycloconverter generates exactly one-third of the grid frequency, that the line current has only odd harmonic components (3rd, 5th, 7th, etc). Subharmonic and interharmonic components are not generated. Here, three single-tuned filters and one damped filter are used to prevent these harmonic currents from being injected into the 6-Hz power grid. These filters are designed with a procedure similar to that for the ac filters at the sending end. At the 2-Hz side, the line-to-neutral voltage has harmonics of order 3, 5, 7,, without subharmonic and inter harmonic components. However, the harmonic components of order equal to integer multiples of three are absent in the line-to-line voltage. Therefore, as seen from the 2-Hz side, the cycloconverter acts as a source of harmonic voltages of order n=6k±1, k=1,2,...,. The design of the LC filter has two objectives 1) To decrease the amplitudes of the voltage harmonics generated by the cycloconverter 2) To increase the equivalent harmonic impedance magnitudes seen from the receiving end, indicated by ZR (ωn). The 2-Hz LFAC system is designed to transmit 18 MW over 16 km. At the sending end, the dc bus voltage level is chosen as 3 kv and a 214-MVA, 132/13.2-kV,(n s =1), 2-

6 Hz phase-shift transformer is used. Due to the lower frequency, this transformer would be larger compared to a 6- Hz transformer. This is a drawback of the proposed LFAC system. The total size of the ac filters at the sending end is 115 MVAr. For the cycloconverter, the voltage generated at the 2-Hzside is 132 kv (line-to-line).based on the analysis of Section IVthe apparent power rating of each Cycloconverter transformer is chosen tobe 1 MVA. The total size of ac filters at the 6Hz side is2 MVAr. (c) Cycloconverter 2HZ side V. SIMULATION AND RESULTS To demonstrate the validity of the proposed LFACsystem is modeled in MATLAB/ SIMULINK Software. Control methods of Figs.2 and 3 were applied to control the sending end inverter and receiving end cycloconverter. The rating of wind power plant is 18 MW, and the transmission line distance is 16 km.the following figures shows the steady state line-to-line voltage and current wave forms at the sending end, the receiving end, the 2Hz side of the cycloconverter and the 6Hz power grid side under rated power conditions.fig(e) shows the D.C Voltage. To control the output voltage we have two techniques those we seen: 1. PI controller (Proportional integral controller) 2. Fuzzy logic controller 1. PI controller: In Pi the output voltage can t be controlled. If we give the input then output is produced, but the output is decided by PI only. That why we can t get the output as per our requirement. 2. Fuzzy logic controller: Fuzzy logic controller build by using the Graphical user interface tool and that is provided by the Fuzzy toolbox. The output transient stability is less and accuracy is more. The output is defined by user. (a) Sending end (d) 6HZ Power grid side Fig 1: Simulated voltage and current waveforms with PI controller. (a) sending end, (b) receiving end, (c) cycloconverter 2-Hz side, (d) 6-Hz power grid side. V d c ( k v ) V c y c (p.u ) x P G ( M W ) E ff( % ) 1 2 x vdc(kv) Vcyc(p.u) PG(MW) Eff(%) Time(s) Fig.11 Transient wave forms during a wind power ramp with PI controller. Thus the results of the above fig.11 shows that where the power from the wind turbines ramps from to 18 MW, at the rate of 6MW/s (unrealistic fast) to demonstrate the system is stable for this large transient. Shown are the transient responses of the dc bus voltage at the sending end, the 2-Hz voltage generated by the cycloconverter, the active power injected into the 6-Hz power grid, and the transmission efficiency which reaches the value of 96% at rated power. For extension of this project we are using fuzzy. The parameters are same as PI controller. In this we are improving the efficiency 2%, by using fuzzy we will get 98% efficiency and also we can reduce the ripples. (b) Receiving end (a) Sending end

7 Mag (% of Fundamental) 4 2 Fundamental (2Hz) = 1.4, THD= 13.79% Frequency (Hz) (b) Receiving end Fig. 14 shows the FFT analysis on the cycloconverter Due to the LC filter, the voltages at the sending end and receiving ends have reduced THD values are.2.89% and 4.39%. Fundamental (2Hz) = 1.45, THD= 2.89% (c) Cycloconverter 2-Hz side Mag (% of Fundamental) Frequency (Hz) Fig. 15. shows the FFT analysis on the sending end Fundamental (2Hz) = 1.47, THD= 4.39% Mag (% of Fundamental) Frequency (Hz) (d) 6-Hz power grid side Fig.12. Simulated voltage and current waveforms with Fuzzy controller.(a) sending end, (b) receiving end, (c) cycloconverter 2-Hz side, (d) 6-Hz power grid side. Fig. 13. Transient wave forms during a wind power ramp with Fuzzy controller. Fig. 16.shows the FFT analysis on the receiving end LFAC system parameters: Transmission line nominal voltage: 132 kv Transmission line Maximum voltage: 145 kv Transmission line Rated current: 825 A Cable s cross section: 1 mm2 Cable s resistance :17.6 m/km, Cable s inductance.35 mh/km Cable s capacitance :.25 μf/km Total wind power :18 MW Transmission line distance : 16 km. DC bus capacitance: 1 μf. Sending-end transformer rating : 214MVA,132/13.2 kv,2hz Receiving-end transformer rating :1 MVA, 132/88 kv. Sending-end AC filters :115 MVAr, 2 Hz AC filters at the 6-Hz side : 2 MVAr. LC filter rating : 63 mh and 8.7 μf. The 2-Hz voltage generated from the cycloconverter has significant total harmonic distortion (THD is 13.79%)

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