Optimized Power Error Comparison Strategy for Direct Power Control of the Open-Winding Brushless Doubly Fed Wind Power Generator

This paper presents the simulation and experimental evaluation of a novel power error comparison direct power control (PEC-DPC) strategy of the open-winding brushless doubly fed reluctance generator (OW-BDFRG) for wind energy conversion systems. As one of the promising candidates for limited speed range application of pump-alike and wind turbine with partially rated converter. The emerging OW-BDFRG employed for the proposed PEC-DPC is fed via dual low-cost two-level converters, while the DPC concept is derived from the fundamental dynamic analyses of the calculated and controllable electrical power and flux of the BDFRG with two stators measurable voltage and current. Compared to the traditional two-level and three-level converter systems, the OW-BDFRG requires lower rated capacity of power devices and switching frequency converter, though have more flexible switching mode, higher reliability, redundancy, and fault tolerance capability. The performance correctness and effectiveness of the proposed DPC strategy with the selected and optimized switching vector scheme are evaluated and confirmed on a 25 kW generator test rig.

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