A Comparative Analysis of Three-Phase, Multi-Phase and Dual Stator Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Abstract:

In this paper, the performances of all the three kinds of Axial type Multi-Pole Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators (PMSG) namely Three-phase, Multi-phase or Five Phase and Double Stator fixed in Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) were investigated and compared in order to get an optimal system. MATLAB/Simulink had been used to model and simulate the wind turbine system together with all the three types Permanent Magnet Generators. It was observed from the result that with the increasing number of pole in both low and high wind speed, the five phase generator produced more power than the other two generators. In general, it was observed that the responses of the Multi-phase generator at both high and low speed wind showed promising aspect towards the system followed by Dual Stator. But with the change of the variables such as wind velocity, turbine height, radius, area together with the generator pole pairs and stator resistance, the optimum system should be chosen by considering the trade-off between different configurations which were firmly analyzed and described in this paper.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 446-447)
• Pages: 709-715
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.446-447.709
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: M. Shahrukh Adnan Khan, Rajprasad K. Rajkumar, Rajparthiban K. Rajkumar, C.V. Aravind
• Keywords: Low Wind Speed, Modeling, Optimization, Three Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator, Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

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