Voltage and frequency control of wind–diesel power system through adaptive sliding mode control of superconducting magnetic energy storage

Abstract

The random nature of wind power along with active and reactive load changes results in both frequency and voltage fluctuations in a wind–diesel power system. In order to improve the dynamic performance by regulating the frequency as well as voltage of the system, an adaptive sliding mode control strategy is proposed on superconducting magnetic energy storage unit interfaced with a wind–diesel power system. Sliding mode control strategy developed with the superconducting magnetic energy storage unit achieves fast and effective exchange of real and reactive power via firing angle control of the converter. With the help of suitable switching surface design and use of adaptive control law, chattering elimination and controller robustness is achieved. This work is carried out in MATLAB/Simulink, and simulation results presented shows a positive impact of proposed scheme.