Application of Matrix Converter in Wind Energy Conventional System Employing PMSG

Over the last ten years, the global wind energy capacity has increased rapidly and became the fastest developing renewable energy technology. The controllability of the wind turbines becomes more and more important as the power level of the turbines increases. Nowadays, for generating units above 1MW, variable speed concepts are usually applied that are either based on doubly fed induction machines or converter-driven synchronous machines. Synchronous generator are widely used in standalone WECS, Though the requirements are not fulfilled directly by the machine, the control strategy is used in both the stator as well as rotor side along with power electronic converters to fulfill the requirements stated above. In this paper, matrix converter has to be introduced for wind power applications. Major technical features and advantages are going to describe. Keywords - Matrix Converter, Pmsg, WECS