This paper presents the review of the Doubly fed Induction Generator (DFIG) based Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS). Basically the various challenges of the grid connected DFIG based wind turbine has been highlighted in this review. Nonlinear model of wind turbine with DFIG configuration are explained and a 1.2 MW, 50 Hz, 6 pole DFIG simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK. Some important control is...

This paper presents a control strategy for a grid connected doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind energy conversion system (WECS).Control strategies for the grid side and rotor side placed in the rotor circuit of the Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) are presented along with the mathematical modeling of the Wind Energy Conversion System. In this control approach, wind generators ...

This paper presents the study of a variable speed wind energy conversion system based on a Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) based on a sliding mode control applied to achieve control of active and reactive powers exchanged between the stator of the DFIG and the grid to ensure a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) of a wind energy conversion system. The proposed control algorithm is applied...

In recent years, wind energy has become one of the most important and promising sources of renewable energy. As a result, wind energy demands additional transmission capacity and better means of maintaining system reliability. The evolution of technology related to the wind system industry has led to the development of a generation of variable speed wind turbines that present numerous advantage...

This paper is concerned with behavior analysis and improvement of wind turbines with Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) when using a new fractional-order control strategy during wind variations. A doubly fed induction generator, two types of variable frequency power electronic converters and two input wind waveforms are considered. A fractional-order control strategy is proposed for the wind...

This paper refers to modeling, simulation and analysis of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbines. This paper presents the modelling of DFIG based WT system and the simulation results performed for the system developed in Simulink environment of MATLAB . A gird connected wind energy generation model is developed and simulated for normal operation and for some faults in the grid. the an...

With the change in the wind profile, the speed of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) of wind energy conversion system (WECS) changes from super synchronous to sub synchronous range and vice versa. DFIG is operated to generate quality power; hence, power at rotor side is controlled using matrix converter taking power from grid and feeding back power to the grid depending on the wind profile. ...

The aim of this paper is to propose different methods of control for a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) used in wind energy conversion systems. This paper presents a comparative study on the performance of three control methods for DFIG wind turbine. The study focuses on the regulation of the active and reactive power exchanged between the generator and the grid by the generator inverter u...

The doubly-fed generators (DFIG) have clear superiority for the applications of large capacity and limited-range speed control case due to the partially rated inverter, lower cost and high reliability. These characteristics enable the doubly-fed wound rotor induction machine to have vast applications in wind-driven generation.In this paper Combined Vector and direct power control (CVDPC) strate...

The global electrical energy consumption is rising and there is steady increase of the demand on power generation. In addition to conventional power generation units a large number of renewable energy units are being integrated into the power system. The Wind Energy Conversion system (WECS) is the most cost competitive of all the environmentally clean and safe renewable energy sources in world....