STATCOM Controller Design and Experimental Investigation for Wind Generation System

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 150453 - 150461
• Main Authors: Ibrahim, Amr M., Gawish, Sanaa A., El-Amary, Noha H., Sharaf, Soliman M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Automatic voltage control; Control methods; Control systems design; Controllers; D C motors; Electric motors; Fuzzy control; Fuzzy logic; Inverters; Mathematical model; Permanent magnets; Permanent-magnet synchronous generator; Rotors; Self tuning; self-tuning fuzzy logic PI-controller; STATCOM; Wind speed; Wind turbines; wind-turbine unit
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2946141

Controlling of Wind Generation System (WGS) is a vital process to adjust the value of voltage fluctuation that linked to the grid under variations of wind speed. In this paper, a variable speed wind-turbine unit coupled with permanent-magnet synchronous generator is modeled. STATCOM-control methodologies are established on the basis of two controllers; PI controller and Self-Tuning Fuzzy Logic PI-Controller (STFPC). Laboratory model of the WGS using DC motor with an armature current control is designed to achieve a real time simulation of the system. The results are evidenced on the validation of the suggested controlling methodologies. The paper presents experimental comparisons of STFPC with PI-controller. Also, the superiority of utilizing STFPC over PI-controller has been proven.