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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Procedia Technology 21 (2015 ) 643 650 SMART GRID Technologies, August 6-8, 2015 DC-DC Chopper Excitation Control of WRSG for MPPT in Offshore Wind Farm Sreenidhi Pisharody a*, V Vanitha b a M.Tech Scholar,Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India-641112 b Assistant Professor (SG),EEE Department, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,,Coimbatore,India-641112 Abstract This paper gives an idea of different state of the art of offshore wind farm configurations. One of the configurations uses Wound Rotor Synchronous Generator (WRSG), which is connected to HVDC grid through diode bridge rectifier. Field excitation of the generator is controlled for achieving Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) to have full utilization of wind power. The most important feature of the suggested prototype is its low cost and high efficiency. A working model of this configuration is implemented in hardware using DSPIC and the results are verified. 2015 Published The Authors.Published by Elsevier Ltd. by This Elsevier is an open Ltd. access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University. Peer-review under responsibility of Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University Keywords:DC-DC chopper; Wound Rotor Synchronous Generator; Maximum power point tracking,;dspic; Wind power 1. Introduction Wind power harnessing technologies have been gaining attention in the recent years. Power electronic techniques integrated with wind turbines have provided an efficient means of exploiting the kinetic energy of moving wind for the production of electric power. Latest developments in semi conductor technology have resulted in modern HVDC transmissions system with fully controllable converters, instrumental for power transmission over long distances. Like all energy sources, small wind power has its advantages and disadvantages. They include wind s variability, bird mortality, aesthetics, property values and unwanted sound. Although residential wind turbines and their energy source, the wind, have a few downsides, wind energy is an abundant and renewable resource. * Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-903-788-6193 E-mail address:sreenidhipisharody@gmail.com 2212-0173 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University doi:10.1016/j.protcy.2015.10.077

644 Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 In offshore wind farms, HVDC transmission is preferred because of its economy for long distances. This work discusses about the use of WRSG connected to HVDC grid through diode bridge rectifier. MPPT of wind turbine is implemented using DC-DC chopper excitation of the synchronous generator. The same is verified in laboratory setup of DC motor mechanically coupled to WRSG using DSPIC. Nomenclature WRSG Wound Rotor Synchronous Generator MPPT Maximum Power Point Tracking HVDC High Voltage Direct Current P&O Perturb and Observe 2. Types of Wind Electric Generators A wind turbine is the device that captures the power available from the wind and converts it into rotational mechanism power, which is then converted into electrical power by a generator. Different types of wind turbine configurations [2,5] have been designed according to the need and applications. Early systems were of constant speed wind turbines regardless of wind speed variations. But the need for higher efficiency wind turbines requires that the turbine speed should vary in a wide range, depending upon the wind speed, in order to extract maximum power from the available kinetic energy of wind. The configuration of Wind Electric Generator (WEG) using Squirrel Cage Induction Generator (SCIG) connected to AC grid. The AC-DC-AC power electronic converter setup used in the rotor circuit of slip ring induction generator connected to the grid.using this scheme, 60% speed variations around synchronous speed may be obtained, through which MPPT of wind turbine is achieved.in spite of torque variations along with the use of multi stage gear box, the SCIG keeps almost constant speed variations (1-2%). In the scheme using synchronous generator, gear box can be avoided by increasing the number of poles of synchronous machine. For high power ratings, the direct driven wind turbine systems become larger and more expensive. Using a single stage gear box, small size synchronous generator can be used for same wind turbine rating. If gearbox is present, it will introduce losses to the system and will also reduce the reliability of the system and therefore direct driven system might be preferred. [5] 3. Common Wind Farm Configurations Wind farm configurations vary with nature of wind farm s local network. One configuration, where AC grid is situated inside the farm itself so that power generated from the generator is transferred to the main AC grid through AC-DC-AC power electronic converters. MPPT is implemented in the machine side converter. As the voltage induced in the generator is less, it is stepped up to the grid voltage using transformer. Another configuration is where AC local network is connected to the power grid via HVDC link. In the case of offshore wind farm, HVDC transmission is cheaper than using an AC local network.ac/dc/ac conversion has been done to inject the generated power to the AC local network and to perform MPPT. Control of wind turbine is through forced commutated converters. The configurationof wind farm with DC local network, where each wind turbine is separately controlled with its own AC/DC converter and the generated power is transmittedthrough the HVDC link.another option is where configuration has constant DC link voltage to control each turbine, so that the turbine operates at individual optimal speed. Generator used in this configuration will be permanent magnet synchronous generator. Inverter on AC grid side will take care of constant HVDC link voltage. [5] 4. Proposed System Another wind farm configuration with DC local network is to implement a diode bridge rectifier in the place of AC/DC converter. This configuration uses WRSG, whose excitation can be varied by using DC-DC chopper in the field circuit instead of armature circuit. Each wind turbine is directly connected to the DC local network. A control algorithm is used to vary the duty ratio of the chopper and thus the maximum power can be extracted from the wind

Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 645 Fig.1 Wind generator using DC-DC chopper excitation for WRSG to achieve MPPT [5] turbine. In this scenario, there is no means to control the mechanical stress on the drive train because speed control is through common DC link voltage magnitude. Fig. 1 shows the connection of one turbine in such configuration. Then power generated from the wind farm is transferred through a large size DC-AC inverter on AC grid side, which maintains the HVDC link voltage constant. Since diode bridge rectifier is used instead of AC-DC converter, it is more economical. Advantages of having DC local network over AC local network are Generator side back to back converter is replaced with cheap diode bridge rectifier. AC converters are eliminated and DC/AC conversion is done with the help of grid side converter of HVDC link. Reactive compensation and capacitive over voltages are done with the help of local DC network. This type of configuration has higher aerodynamic efficiency. It has very less stability problems and mechanical stresses on the turbine drive trains. 5. Methodology for Hardware Implementation Fig 2. Experimental set up for emulating wind turbine-wrsg for achieving MPPT 5.1 Wind Power Harnessing Wind energy is even though abundant, varies continuously as wind speed changes throughout the day. The amount of power output from a WECS depends on the accuracy with which the peak power point is tracked by MPPT controller irrespective of type of wind generator used. The power available from the wind turbine is a function of both the wind speed and the rotor angular speed. The wind speed being uncontrollable, the only way to alter the

646 Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 operating point is to control the rotor speed. Rotor speed control can be achieved by using power electronics to control the loading of the generator. The reference of the rotational speed control loop is adjusted such that the turbine operates around maximum power for the current wind speed value. In order to decide whether this reference must be either increased or decreased, the current position of the operating point in relation to the maximum power must be estimated. The target of MPPT is to make the WECS operate around the maximum power.without any given knowledge of the aerodynamics of any wind turbine, the Hill Climbing Search principle searches for the maximum power point by adjusting the operating point and observing the corresponding change in the output. This MPPT technique used in the given prototype is essentially an observe and perturb concept used to traverse the natural power curve of the turbine. With respect to wind energy systems, it monitors the changes in the output power of the turbine and rotor speed. Fig. 2 shows the experimental setup for emulating the wind electric generator when it runs as Motor-Alternator and the output from the alternator is transferred to the emulated HVDC grid. By varying the excitation of alternator, the speed of the Motor-Alternator set is varied and the readings on motor side and alternator side are noted and tabulated. 5.2 Finding optimum turbine speed for MPPT:- A 1.5 MW variable speed wind turbine is selected as the test system. Its specifications are given in Table 1. Maximum aerodynamic efficiency o, Cp=0.48 is achieved for Tip-speed ratio of wind turbine, λ = 8. Table 1 : Parameters of Wind turbine under consideration Rating Diameter of turbine Cut in wind speed Rated wind speed Cut out wind speed 1,5 MW 65 m 4 m/s 13 m/s 25 m/s In order to obtain turbine speeds corresponding to wind speed with a constant tip speed ratio, the following computations are done. Tip- speed ratio of wind turbine is given by λ= ωr/v (1) Where ω-turbine speed in rad/s, R- radius of wind turbine in m V-wind speed in m/s. Optimum turbine speeds for various wind speed are determined from the above equation and tabulated in Table 2. 5.3 Relating turbine speed to rotor speed in the laboratory setup:- Thus the prototype developed will be run for the speed range specified in Table 2 as it is in this particular range that MPPT can be employed. The range of speed obtained from the actual wind turbine is scaled up and emulated with the help of DC motor- WRSG laboratory setup, which is shown in Fig. 4a.Here DC machine coupled to Induction machine is considered as HVDC grid. The excitation is varied to achieve maximum power output where by the speed of the motor-alternator also varies and the observations obtained are tabulated in Table 3. Table 2 : Optimum turbine speeds corresponding to wind speeds Wind speed (m/s) Turbine speed (rad/s) 4.98 6 1.4769 8 1.9692 10 2.4615 13 3.20

Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 647 Table 3 Readings taken from the Experimental setup of Motor-Alternator set DC Motor Side Alternator side Voltage( Current( Speed(rpm) Field Field AC AC DC DC Rectifier V) A) voltage (V) current(a) voltage(v) current(a) voltage Current Output (Vdc) (Idc)A) (Vdc*Idc) (V) (W) 210 20.5 1000 130 0.95 155 6.2 205 8.4 1722 210 17.5 1050 125.8 0.9 155 6.2 205 8.2 1681 210 17 1100 121.7 0.86 155 5.9 205 8 1640 210 16.5 1150 118 0.85 152 5.8 205 8 1640 210 15 1200 110.7 0.8 152 5.6 202 7.6 1558 210 13 1250 98.5 0.7 150 5 200 6.7 1340 210 12 1300 92.7 0.65 150 4.7 200 6.4 1280 210 10.5 1350 85.6 0.6 150 4.3 200 5.9 1180 The power extracted from laboratory setup is expressed in terms of optimum rotor speeds of the machine. These speeds are then converted into equivalent turbine speed and corresponding wind speed for obtaining the actual emulation of proposed WECS. The speed relations are recorded in Table 4.The automatic excitation pertaining to MPPT is exercised with a help of a buck converter as mentioned in the previous section. The input- output voltage relations of the converter is noted for selected speed range and corresponding duty cycle (D) is calculated from the relation, Vout D Vin (2) The applied field excitation is the input to the converter and the controlled alternator field voltage is the output. The corresponding duty cycle of the converter for specified speed range found out is tabulated as seen in Table 5. The above duty cycle is implemented in the buck converter to control alternator field excitation by Hill climbing algorithm using DSPIC for MPPT. Table 4: Optimum rotor speed in lab set up for MPPT Wind speed(m/s) Turbine speed(rad/s) Optimum Rotor Speed of Machine (rpm) 8.87 84.715 1000 10 95.191 1100 11.063 105.663 1200 12.161 116.135 1300 13 126.320 1350 Table 5: Alternator field voltage and duty cycle of chopper for MPPT Optimum Rotor Speed of Machine (rpm) Alternator Field Voltage (V) Duty cycle for DC-DC Chopper 1000 130 0.59 1100 121.7 0.579 1200 110.7 0.527 1300 92.7 0.441 1350 89.6 0.39

648 Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 5.4 Design of DC-DC chopper(buck CONVERTER) Fig 3. Buck Converter [3] For hardware implementation of MPPT algorithm, a buck converter providing excitation control, based on the ratings of field circuit of alternator and using the data from Table 5 was designed. The circuit diagram of a typical buck converter is shown in Fig 3.By conducting proper experiments, the resistance of alternator field winding was found to be 165.08Ω and inductance was obtained as 191mH. Since the field winding inductance is much larger than Lc required for filter inductance of buck converter designed, the need for an additional field inductance is eliminated. Also since the output voltage is almost ripple free, the need for a capacitor is also eliminated. 5.5 Implementation of MPPT by Perturb and Observe (P&O) Method in DSPIC The method which is also called Hill Climbing Search has been used in this work. The power at the present operating point is identified. The point can be on either side of the power versus voltage curve. The operating point can move in two directions, towards the maximum power point or away from the maximum power point. The present power and voltage are compared with the previous power and voltage. The rate of change in power and voltage has been noted. In this paper, the control algorithm used for performing closed loop MPPT is P&O method due to its simplicity. The experiment has been performed over a speed range of 1000 to 1350rpm and the power was determined for all the values of speed in this particular range. 6. Hardware Implementation And Results The entire setup shown in Fig. 4 is implemented using the designed buck converter with closed loop control for providing automatic excitation control. The implementation was done in three stages. Fig. 4 Full experimental setup for closed loop excitation control

Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 649 6.1 Implementation of closed loop excitation control in buck converter The system comprises of a buck converter with closed loop duty cycle control. The control tracks maximum power for applied wind speed by controlling duty cycle of converter and delivering excitation required for maximum power output to the field system. The logic of duty cycle control was coded in dspic to generate the gate pulses for the converter MOSFET. These pulses for controlling the duty cycles of the buck converter are obtained from dspic. 6.2 Implementation of closed loop excitation control of buck converter for MPPT using perturb and observe algorithm:- The hardware implementation of the closed loop excitation control of buck converter for MPPT is in the shown in Fig. 5. The system comprises of a buck converter with closed loop duty cycle control based on the logics of perturb and observe MPPT algorithm. The control tracks maximum power point for applied wind speed by controlling duty cycle of converter and delivering excitation required for maximum power output corresponding to the applied wind speed. The logic of perturb and observe duty cycle control was coded in dspic to generate the gate pulses for the converter MOSFET. Fig.5 Full experimental setup for closed loop MPPT algorithm The MPPT algorithm was implemented in dspic and tested by considering the power output requirement of rectified DC machine side (refer Table 1). The setup was found to track a constant power of 100W by automatic adjustment of duty ratio as per perturb and observe algorithm. 6.3 Implementation of stand alone WRSG wind energy conversion system with automatic excitation control for MPPT Fig. 6 demonstrates the entire system for achieving MPPT by automatic control of excitation in a stand alone WRSG wind energy conversion system. In this system a triple pole double throw switch is connected so that experiment is done by including excitation rheostat on one side and with buck converter on other side instead of excitation rheostat.testing with manual excitation control: First the wound rotor synchronous generator is started normally by including excitation rheostat and the machine is brought to its rated speed. The stand alone system feeds a resistive 2A load and hence the machine speed decreases from 1491 rpm to 1261 rpm. Thus the armature

650 Sreenidhi Pisharody and V. Vanitha / Procedia Technology 21 ( 2015 ) 643 650 rheostat is adjusted to bring to rated speed but, the output DC voltage obtained with this speed may not be the maximum voltage to get maximum power corresponding to that wind speed. Hence the need for excitation control creeps in and the field rheostat is adjusted to deliver maximum power at the output. Testing with automatic excitation control using buck converter: In this case, the closed loop excitation control for MPPT, varies the duty ratio applied to buck converter to achieve maximum power. The objective is to automatically control the excitation. The TPDT switch is used for switching voltage applied to field from manual excitation control to automatic excitation control with the buck converter. A rheostat is connected in series with buck converter so that 220V does not directly get applied across it. When automatic excitation control via buck is applied to the field, even upon reduction in speed due to increase in demand (in actual system, wind speed variations occur), maximum power output for that wind speed is delivered at the output. Thus closed loop MPPT is implemented successfully during stand alone mode. 7. Conclusion Fig. 6. Stand alone WRSG WECS with automatic excitation control for MPPT This paper describes the prototype model of an stand alone offshore wind farm with WRSG, which uses automatic excitation control with buck converter technology to harness energy. The experimental verification shows that proposed model has the benefits of low cost and greater efficiency when compared with the normal system that uses back to back power conversion technology. References [1] H. Polinder,Comparison of Direct-Drive and Geared Generator Concepts for Wind Turbines, IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion, 2006, 21:p. 725 733. [2] J.A. Baroudi, A review of power converter topologies for wind generators,ieee International conference on Electric Machines And Drives, 2005:p. 458 465. [3] Zhe Chen, J.M. Guerrero, F. Blaabjerg, A Review of the State of the Art of Power Electronics for Wind Turbines, IEEE Trans. Power Electronics,2009,24: p. 1859 1875. [4] T. Kawaguchi, T. Sakazaki, T. Isobe, R. Shimada, Offshore windfarm configuration using diode rectifier with MERS in current link topology, IEEETrans. Industrial Electronics,2009, 59. [5] Ali Shamsnia, MostafaParniani,A New Cost-Effective Wind Farm Structure with HVDC Link Preserving TechnicalAdvantagesof Advanced offshore Wind Farms, Center of Excellence in Power System Management and ControlDepartment of Electrical EngineeringSharif University of Technology. [6] MickSagrillo and IanWoofenden and technical advisors Robert Aram, PE and Jim Green, Wind power basics,peillustrations by Anil Rao, Ph.D. [7] K S M Raza,Hgoto,H J Guo.O.Ichinokura, Novel Speed Senorless Adaptive Hill Climbing Algorithm For Fast And Efficient Maximum Power Point Tracking Of Wind Energy Conservation Systems,Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET, IEEE international Conference, 2008.