OPEN-CODE, REAL-TIME EMULATION TESTBED OF GRID-CONNECTED TYPE-3 WIND TURBINE SYSTEM WITH HARDWARE VALIDATION

Conference · Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2019.8722049· OSTI ID:1531260

Ferrari Maglia, Max ^[1]; Orendorff, Michael ^[2]; Smith, Travis  ^[1]; Buckner, Mark  ^[1]

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1. ORNL
2. Florida Power and Light

This paper presents the design and development of an open-code Type-3 wind turbine virtual-testbed for real-time simulations. The proposed testbed includes the bare code for all the models required to emulate a Type-3 wind turbine system: the Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) dynamic model, single-mass drive train, wind turbine system, and average model of the back to back power. This testbed can be executed in PC-layer for offline simulations or can be executed in real-time on the National Instruments (NI)-CompactRIO (cRIO) platform. The discrete-time models are implemented on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), using LabVIEW, and validated against a physical hardware setup. The emulated stator and rotor currents and DC-link voltage are compared against physical measurements creating a validated platform independent from third-party models and suitable for applications in real-time. The proposed testbed is intended to be available to researchers, wind turbine manufacturers, and utility companies to perform tests using a validated platform to verify proposed control designs of DFIG wind turbines.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1531260
• Resource Relation: Conference: APEC 2019 - Anaheim, California, United States of America - 3/17/2019 4:00:00 AM-3/21/2019 4:00:00 AM
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English