Energy efficient control system of stand-alone induction generator for remote settlements
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https://doi.org/10.31548/energiya2021.01.026Abstract
Abstract. Laying power lines to small settlements and farms away from towns and villages is not always cost-effective. Therefore, autonomous solar and wind energy sources are increasingly used in such settlements. In contrast to the dominant today in wind power plants synchronous generators with permanent magnets, an induction generator (IG) with a short-circuited rotor have such important advantages as higher reliability and lower cost. But the energy performance in IG is lower, so their improvement is an actual task. To solve this problem, systems of no-search optimization of power losses in IG are intensively developed. In these systems, the optimal magnetic flux is determined by the analytical expression obtained from the loss model. The disadvantages of the known works on this topic are that they use various simplified models of losses. Accordingly, this reduces the accuracy of optimization algorithms.
The aim of the work is to build the vector control system of IG, in which, due to the optimization of the sum of major power losses, a significant increment in the efficiency of the generator is achieved.
The article uses a model of power losses, which includes all the main losses in the IG of electromagnetic nature. These include ohmic losses in the stator and rotor resistances, magnetic losses in the iron and additional losses. By analytical study of the model of losses to the extremum, a expression is obtained to calculate the optimal flux linkage of the rotor by the criterion of minimum total losses in the generator. The application of this expression allows to increase the accuracy of loss optimization in comparison with known analogues. Numerical studies of steady-state processes in the mode of operation of the generator with a constant output power P2=const for its values from 10% to 50% have been conducted. It is established that the efficiency increment obtained due to control with loss optimization has an extreme character with a maximum in the vicinity of the nominal speed. The maximum and average efficiency increment obtained in the study reach 26% and 18%, respectively. This shows the prospects of the proposed system of energy-efficient vector control of IG.
Key words: induction generator, automatic control system, energy efficiency, loss optimization
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