Development of a flickermeter for grid connected wind turbines using a DSP based prototyping system

The measurement of one of the power quality problems which may arise in wind turbine generators, flicker, is presented. This paper focuses on the design of a complete fully digital flickermeter relying on an in-house developed measurement system, which featured a data acquisition system, using a C6711 DSP based Starter Kit (DSK) and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). To study flicker produced during wind turbines continuous operation, a special highlighting is given to simulate the voltage fluctuations on a fictitious grid.

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