Control of Grid Voltage Feed-Forward and Crowbar Circuit for DC-Bus Voltage

Abstract:

The DC bus voltage is the main criteria to reflect whether the converter system is working properly or not, and the stability control of the DC bus voltage is the key to ensure that wind power generators not take off the grid when grid voltage drops. This paper had done research on a direct-drive wind power system and proposed a coordinated control method based on the grid voltage information feedforward with a crowbar circuit. The hardware was combined with the improved control strategy in this method. When the grid voltage drops, the extra energy of the DC bus can be unleashed by the crowbar circuit, at the same time, the output power of motor-side can be controlled according to the grid-side information, and the mechanical speed of motor-side can be suppressed by the pitch angle regulation when the output power reduces. Thus, the DC-bus voltage can be keep stability. Results based on Matlab/Simulink simulation shows that this method not only improves the stability and dynamic response performance of the DC bus voltage, but also effectively maintains the output power of generator and reduces the action time of crowbar circuit. The ability of the wind power system riding through the grid fault has been effectively improved.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 875-877)
• Pages: 1723-1728
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.875-877.1723
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Xi Yun Yang, Li Xia Li, Ya Min Zhang, Jin Gao
• Keywords: Coordinated Control, Crowbar Circuit, Dc Bus Voltage, Direct-Drive Wind Power System, Low Voltage Ride through (LVRT)

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