*Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
**Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
***Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Online published on 9 December, 2016.
Fossil fuel reservation of the globe and the effects of its green house emissions track an ideal path towards renewable energy technology. The deploying conventional power generations as on date, even make uneven climatic changes and there by confront to the innovators in making the resolution. The wind energy conversion systems, a rapid growing green energy sector meets the expectation to the demand in near future. The stability issues in the protocol of the energy conversion is the biggest challenge to the turbine designers that has to be mitigated by the appropriate power electronic technologies. This paper deals with the tracking of maximum power using power trackers and stabilizing the fluctuating output at the converter ends for a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) based variable speed wind turbine system (VSWTS). Also a standalone system is incorporated to deliver a continuous power at the time of absence of wind. In this consideration an investigation is made to perusal the duty ratios of the boost chopper for the fluctuating wind so that reactive power stabilization is achieved to compromise the battery through the charge controllers. Modeling is performed at each section of conversion. The simulation results have been developed using MATLAB/SIMULINK to show the output pertaining to the above discussions.
Boost chopper, charge controllers, permanent magnet synchronous generator, power trackers, variable speed wind turbine system
