Control System Design for a 20 MW Reference Wind Turbine

Adrian Gambier, Fanzhong Meng

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    Abstract

    The increasing needs of energy and the requirement that an important percentage of this energy has to arise from renewable sources encourages the efforts for stepping up the capacity of wind turbines. However, enlarging wind energy converters brings with it many difficulties and challenges because structures becomes larger and more flexible, which implies limited stability regions and increasing of loads. Thus, control becomes essential to achieve a stable operation with reduced loads and maximum generation. While industry is developing wind turbines up to 9.5 MW, research efforts are concentrated to the first studies on 20 MW machines. The current work presents a control system design for a 20 MW wind turbine. Preliminary simulation results are satisfactory such that the developing of large machines are promising.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
    Number of pages6
    PublisherIEEE
    Publication date2019
    Pages258-263
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    Duration: 19 Aug 201921 Aug 2019
    Conference number: 3
    https://ccta2019.ieeecss.org/

    Conference

    Conference2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications
    Number3
    LocationCity University of Hong Kong
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityHong Kong
    Period19/08/201921/08/2019
    SponsorCity University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Automatic Control Association, IEEE
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