An Induction Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulator

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences 2014
Alvis Sokolovs, Linards Grigāns, Edmunds Kamoliņš, Jānis Voitkāns

The authors present a small-scale wind turbine emulator based on the AC drive system and discuss the methods for power coefficient calculation. In the work, the experimental set-up consisting of an AC induction motor, a frequency converter, a synchronous permanent magnet generator, a DC-DC boost converter and DC load was simulated and tested using real-life equipment. The experimentally obtained wind turbine power and torque diagrams using the emulator are in a good agreement with the theoretical ones.

Keywords
wind turbine (WT); wind turbine emulator; wind energy conversion
DOI
10.2478/lpts-2014-0009
Hyperlink
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lpts.2014.51.issue-2/lpts-2014-0009/lpts-2014-0009.xml

Sokolovs, A., Grigāns, L., Kamoliņš, E., Voitkāns, J. An Induction Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulator. Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences, 2014, Vol.51, Iss.2, pp.11-21. e-ISSN 0868-8257. Available from: doi:10.2478/lpts-2014-0009

Publication language
English (en)