Dynamic Behavior of Wind Turbine Generator Configurations during Ferroresonant Conditions

Abstract

In this paper the dynamic behavior of different wind turbine generator configurations including doubly fed induction generators (DFIG), squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG), wound rotor induction generator (WRIG), and permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) under ferroresonant conditions of energization and de-energization was investigated using Simulink/MATLAB (version 2017B, MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA). The result showed that SCIG had the highest overvoltage of 10.1 PU during energization, followed by WRIG and PMSG, while the least was DFIG. During de-energization, PMSG had the highest overvoltage of 9.58 PU while WRIG had the least. Characterization of the ferroresonance was done using a phase plane diagram to identify the harmfulness of the ferroresonance existing in the system. It was observed that for most of the wind turbine configurations, a chaotic mode of ferroresonance exists for both energization and de-energization scenarios. Although overvoltage during energization for wind turbine generator configurations was higher than in the de-energization with an exception of PMSG, their phase plane diagrams showed that de-energization scenarios were more chaotic than energization scenarios. The study showed that WRIG was the least susceptible to ferroresonance while PMSG was the most susceptible to ferroresonance.