Generalized Gain Scheduling for Deloaded Wind Turbine Operation

The ability to produce less power than what is available from a wind source, a condition known as deloaded operation, is needed for a wind turbine to reproduce synchronous machine behavior in terms of inertial response and frequency droop regulation. Deloaded operation requires the ability to regulate both power production and rotor speed under any wind speed conditions. In this paper, a novel controller for deloaded wind turbine operation is presented. This controller is made possible by a Cp table inversion procedure allowing generalized gain scheduling for linearization of the pitch response. After introducing the wind turbine models, a review of classical turbine control principles and the proposed deloaded wind turbine control architecture is presented. A discussion of wind turbine non linearity and linearization principles follows. Simulation results are shown for stability, immunity to icing and performance. The advantages of generalized gain scheduling over classical gain scheduling are demonstrated by simulation results.