Renewable Energy, Vol.36, No.1, 42-49, 2011
Control strategy for a distributed DC power system with renewable energy
This paper deals with a DC-micro-grid with renewable energy. The proposed method is composed of a gearless wind power generation system, a battery, and DC loads in a DC distribution system. The battery helps to avoid the DC over-voltages by absorbing the power of the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) during line-fault. In addition, the control schemes presented in this paper including the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control and a pitch angle control for the gearless wind turbine generator. By means of the proposed method, high-reliable power can be supplied to the DC distribution system during the line-fault and stable power supply from the PMSG can be achieved after line-fault clearing. The effectiveness of the proposed method is examined in a MATLAB/Simulink (R) environment. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:DC distribution;Micro-grid;Permanent magnet synchronous generator;Pitch angle control;Fault ride-through (FRT)