Active and Passive Control of a Dual Rotor Wind Turbine Generator for DC Grids

Analysis and Design of a Permanent-Magnet Outer-Rotor Synchronous Generator for a Direct-Drive Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine

In Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators (PMSGs) the reduction of cogging torque is one of the most important problems in their performance and evaluation. In this paper, at first, a direct-drive vertical-axis wind turbine is chosen. According to its nominal value operational point, necessary parameters for the generator is extracted. Due to an analytical method, four generators with differen...

A Novel Dual-Rotor Turbine for Increased Wind Energy Capture

Horizontal axis wind turbines suffer from aerodynamic inefficiencies in the blade root region (near the hub) due to several non-aerodynamic constraints. Aerodynamic interactions between turbines in a wind farm also lead to significant loss of wind farm efficiency. A new dual-rotor wind turbine (DRWT) concept is proposed that aims at mitigating these two losses. A DRWT is designed that uses an e...

Model simplification and optimization of a passive wind turbine generator

In this paper, the design of a ‘‘low cost full passive structure’’ of wind turbine system without active electronic part (power and control) is investigated. The efficiency of such device can be obtained only if the design parameters are mutually adapted through an optimization design approach. For this purpose, sizing and simulating models are developed to characterize the behavior and the eff...

Wind Turbine Generator Technologies

Modeling and Control of a Doubly-fed Induction Generator for Wind Turbine-generator Systems

MODELING AND CONTROL OF A DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR WIND TURBINE-GENERATOR SYSTEMS Xin Jing, M.S.E.E Marquette University, 2012 Wind energy plays an increasingly important role in the world because it is friendly to the environment. During the last decades, the concept of a variable-speed wind turbine (WT) has been receiving increasing attention due to the fact that it is more controll...