Title: Control of the rated production power of DFIG-wind turbine using adaptive PSO and PI conventional controllers

Authors: Hazem Hassan Ali; Ghada Saeed Elbasuony; Nashwa Ahmad Kamal

Addresses: Electrical Engineering Department, Marg High Institute for Engineering and Modern Technology, Egypt ' Electrical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt ' Electrical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt

Abstract: Production of rated power and protection of generator and power converter from an overload are necessary. Therefore, measuring the accurate value of the pitch angle of the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) wind turbine is essential. An assessment study between the adaptive particle swarm optimisation (PSO) technique and conventional proportional integral (PI) controller of the pitch control system in limiting the electrical output power at the rated value of DFIG is introduced in this study. Pitch control with PSO is designed by solving the nonlinear equation of pitch angle at each wind speed higher than rated wind speed. The PI controller gains of the pitch system are evaluated to keep the power limited at rated value. Accuracy in measuring pitch angle is essential because a small difference in pitch angle value results in an overload on the generator. The performance of each parameter of DFIG with a detailed analysis is studied. The simulation shows that the pitch control system with PSO technique gives better results in regulating the DFIG output power compared to PI controller method under wind speed variation.

Keywords: DFIG wind turbine; pitch controller; optimisation; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; conventional controller.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAAC.2022.121134

International Journal of Automation and Control, 2022 Vol.16 No.2, pp.219 - 249

Received: 11 Jun 2020
Accepted: 28 Jun 2020
Published online: 28 Feb 2022 *

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