Improving Low Voltage Ride-Through Capability of ‎Doubly-Fed Induction Generator Wind Farms Using ‎Superconducting Fault Current Limiter

Aminoroayaye Yamani, Seyed Ehsan; Bahramian, Mohammad Amin; Ghadimi, Ali Asghar

doi:10.61186/jgeri.1.2.15

Improving Low Voltage Ride-Through Capability of ‎Doubly-Fed Induction Generator Wind Farms Using ‎Superconducting Fault Current Limiter

Document Type : Research article

Authors

Seyed Ehsan Aminoroayaye yamani ¹

Mohammad Amin Bahramian ²

Ali Asghar Ghadimi ²

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering, Payam Golpayegan Institute of Higher Education, Golpayegan, Iran.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Arak University, Arak 38156-8-8349, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.61186/jgeri.1.2.15

Abstract

Doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) are crucial in wind turbines due to their advanced control features and efficient power conversion, but they're vulnerable to grid issues like voltage dips and short circuits. This study explores enhancing DFIGs' low voltage ride-through (LVRT) capabilities using a superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) system. The SFCL's superconducting coil plays a key role by limiting fault current to stabilize power output, reducing excessive currents during faults, and mitigating voltage fluctuations, protecting the rotor-side converter and gearbox. The research focuses on optimizing the coil's inductance to improve SFCL performance, showing through MATLAB/Simulink simulations that adjusting inductance can lessen rotor current oscillations during short circuits. The results indicate significant enhancements in LVRT capabilities, reducing electrical and mechanical stress on generators and converters, preventing severe voltage drops, and maintaining torque levels. Incorporating an SFCL into DFIG systems greatly increases stability, reliability, and fault tolerance, supporting more wind energy integration.

Graphical Abstract

Improving Low Voltage Ride-Through Capability of ‎Doubly-Fed Induction Generator Wind Farms Using ‎Superconducting Fault Current Limiter

Highlights

Enhancing DFIG Wind Turbines with SFCL for better Low Voltage Ride-Through
Tuning SFCL Coil Inductance for Optimal Current Control
Assessing SFCL-DFIG Performance in Grid Faults via Simulation
Boosting Wind Energy Integration with Advanced LVRT and Stability

Keywords

Doubly-fed induction generator

Low voltage ride through

Superconducting fault current limiter

Wind power plant

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The ethical issues, including plagiarism, informed consent, misconduct, data fabrication and/or falsification, double publication and/or submission, redundancy, have been completely observed by the authors.

Credit Authorship Contribution Statement

Seyed Ehsan Aminoroayaye yamani‎: Conceptualization, Data curation‎, Formal analysis, Methodology‎, Software‎, Roles/Writing - original draft. Mohammad Amin Barhamian: Resources, Visualization, Roles/Writing - original draft‎, Writing - review & editing. Ali Asghar Ghadimi‎‎: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology‎, Supervision‎, Validation Roles/‎Writing‎.

Bibliography

‎Seyed Ehsan Aminoroayaye yamani was born in 1989 in Isfahan, Iran. He received his B.Sc. ‎and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics Engineering and Power Systems Engineering in 2009 and ‎‎2017, respectively, from Payam Golpayegan Institute of Higher Education, Golpayegan, Iran. ‎He is currently an expert in the control and protection of power distribution and transmission ‎networks in the companies affiliated to the regional electricity company of Isfahan province. ‎His fields of interest are protection and control of power systems, microgrids, and renewable ‎energies.‎

Mohammad Amin Bahramian received a B.Sc. degree in electrical ‎engineering from Arak University, Arak, Iran, in 2020. He is now ‎an M.Sc. graduate in electrical engineering from Arak University, having completed his degree in 2022. He also is currently employed at "Camellia Electronics Industry Innovators," a knowledge enterprise company, where he contributes to the field of power electronics, specializing in DC-DC converters and LED drivers. His ‎research interests include Power Converters, Renewable Energy Systems, Smart Grid Technologies and Digital Control Systems.

‎Ali Asghar Ghadimi ‎received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Power Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University, ‎Tehran, Iran in 2002 and 2008 respectively. He is currently Associate Professor and research ‎member in Department of Electrical Engineering at Arak University, Arak, IRAN. His current ‎research interests are in the area of Microgrid, Renewable Energy, and Power system optimal ‎planning.‎

Citation

S. E. Aminoroayaye yamani, M. A. Bahramian and, A. A. Ghadimi, "Improving Low Voltage Ride-Through Capability of ‎Doubly-Fed Induction ‎Generator Wind Farms Using ‎Superconducting Fault Current Limiter," Journal of Green Energy Research and Innovation, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 15-30, 2024.

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