Output power leveling of wind turbine Generator for all operating regions by pitch angle control

Effective utilization of renewable energies such as wind energy is expected instead of the fossil fuel. Wind energy is not constant and windmill output is proportional to the cube of wind speed, which cause the generated power of wind turbine generators to fluctuate. In order to reduce fluctuating components, there is a method to control pitch angle of blades of windmill. We have proposed the pitch angle control using minimum variance control in a previous work. However, it is a controlled output power for only rated wind speed region. This paper presents a control strategy based on average wind speed and standard deviation of wind speed, and pitch angle control using a generalized predictive control in all operating regions for wind turbine generator. The simulation results with using actual detailed model for wind power system show effectiveness of the proposed method.

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