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• Type of prime mover: performance of the SEIG system is generator system. This feature increases the system efficiency and
affected primary source i.e. hydro, wind biomass or combinations, capability. Based on this power system,[16,17,18,19,20] some
the improvement are: 1) the STATCOM including a block to
compensate the current in the neutral wire of an induction generator
III. CLASSIFICATION OF VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY and voltage asymmetries on the dc bus of the converter and 2) the
CONTROLLERS battery bank is connected to a self-oscillating dc–dc converter based
In 1990s, a number of investigations and publications are available in a relay feedback control. This choice provides certain advantages
on voltage and frequency controllers for an driven by uncontrolled over other options of bidirectional dc–dc converters, such as
hydro turbine for single-phase as well as three phase power simplicity of design, good performance over a wide operating range,
applications. In analysis of this different voltage and frequency robustness, and lower cost. So the proposed bidirectional dc–dc
controllers are testimony in the literature. The suitability to control converter is an interesting option to consider in other renewable
the terminal voltage and frequency regulation which is a key factor energy systems, electric vehicles, or satellite applications. The
deciding its use in various applications. Micro hydro power plant electronic converter consists of a four-leg voltage-source converter
various Controllers used for SEIG are as follows: (VSC), with a split-capacitor bus, and two dc–dc converters: a
chopper and a battery energy storage (BES) system [7,8,9,10]. The
A. STATIC COMPENSATOR (STATCOM) three-phase four-wire VSC acts as an active filter, static Var
compensator, as well as a load balancing and ac voltage regulator.
Static Compensator (STATCOM) is a piece of equipment that can The split-capacitor VSC contains a fourth leg to compensate the
provide reactive maintain to a bus. It consists of voltage source neutral current (NCC) yielded by the unbalanced ac load system and
converters linked to an energy storage device on one side and to the voltage asymmetries on dc bus capacitors of VSC is shown in fig2.
power system on the other. A STATCOM can be seen as a voltage
source behind a reactance. It provides reactive power generation as
well as absorption purely by means of electronic processing of
voltage and current waveforms in a Voltage Source Converter. This
means that shunt reactors and capacitor bank are not needed for
generation and absorption of reactive power, giving a compact
design, a small trace, as well as low noise and low magnetic impact.
The VSC has the same rated current when operating with capacitive
or inductive reactive current. Therefore a VSC having a convinced
MVA rating gives STATCOM twice the dynamic array in MVAr
which also found compact design. A DC capacitor bank is utilized to
support (stabilize) the controlled DC voltage needed for the
operation of the VSC. [7,8,9].
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value of modulation index of inverter and phase angle between p= V2ac ric𝐬𝐢𝐧(𝜹)
fundamental component inverter output voltage and SEIG terminal 𝟏−𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝐜𝐨𝐬(𝜹)
Q= V2ac
𝑿𝒔
voltage. it absorbs as well as provide active and reactive energy
VPWM =Km Vdc= riac Vac
according to the load conditions thus frequency as well as voltage
SEIG is maintained constant [11, 12] The excess power delivered by
SEIG is stored in battery bank which is recovered when an overload
is connected to the system the modulation index and phase angle
between fundamental component of inverter output voltage and
SEIG terminal voltage are varied and flow active and reactive
power. The system regulates the output voltage and frequency but it
needs a complex control strategy to do that.[8,9,10]
The operation of a standalone self-excited induction
generator (SEIG) with generalized impedance controller (GIC)
(voltage source pulse width-modulated bidirectional inverter with
dc link battery) has been discussed. The generalized impedance
controller is found to be capable of maintaining the frequency of the
SEIG constant under open-loop condition, following the speed and
load perturbations.[10,11] The schematic diagram of a three-phase
SEIG, with a bank of fixed excitation capacitors, generalized
impedance controller and load are connected across its terminals, Fig. 5 Phasor diagram of GIC operation in different quadrant of
which is shown in Fig. 3. the power plane.
Fig. 5 shows the GIC operation in different quadrants of the P– Q
plane. The values of “ric” and “δ” determine the magnitude and
direction of active and reactive power flow in it. This is achieved by
suitably selecting “m” and “δ,” thus making the GIC to operate in
any quadrant of the P–Q diagram under both steady and transient
state. If the shaft input power to the SEIG is greater than the load
demand, excess power output by the SEIG is stored in the battery of
the GIC.Similarly, when the shaft input power to the SEIG is less
than the load demand, the GIC supplies the shortfall in the load
power demand. For a given ac bus voltage “Vac” and the reactance
“Xs” of the interconnecting reactor, maximum active and reactive
power that can be supplied or absorbed by the GIC and its dc bus
voltage “Vdc” are determined by the choice of critical modulation
index “mcrit.”[10,11,12]
Fig.3.schematic diagram of a three-phase SEIG, with a bank of fixed
excitation capacitors, generalized impedance controller A shunt connected VSI of small rating compared to that generator
The GIC is a voltage source pulse width-modulated (PWM) with a battery bank on the DC side used to regulated voltage and
bidirectional inverter with a bank of battery connected at its dc bus frequency of generated voltage .when there is excess power VSI can
and interconnecting reactor “Xs” connected at its ac bus. The “Xs” store it into battery or supply active power to the load when the
is the leakage reactance of the coupling transformer. The GIC offers power produced by induction generator is sufficient thus increasing
variable-controlled impedance across the SEIG terminals according availability of system. A dump load is included in the system to
to the value of modulation index “m” of the inverter and phase angle assist the VSI when there is a surplus of active power in the ac
“δ,” between the fundamental component of inverter output voltage system which cannot be absorbed by VSI and battery bank. The VSI
“VPWM” and SEIG terminal voltage “Vac.”The model of the flow active power into the system when system frequency decreases
integrated generating system has been developed, which has the due to load increase .The VSI absorbed active power that is stored in
following four salient components: the battery bank when the system frequency is above the reference
value. The phase controlled dump load is activated when battery
1) Induction machine; 2) Excitation system; 3) Load; bank is fully charged or when the power flowing through the VSI
4) GIC -At this stage, it is worthwhile to have an insight into the exceeds its rated value.
overall capability of a GIC. In the following section, the controller The advantage of generalized impedance controllers is the
active and reactive power (P and Q) handling capability is derived in replacement of resistor used another schemes by a battery bank
terms of its intrinsic parameters “m” and “δ.” Fig. 4shows per phase increases efficiency of system. However more complex scheme is
equivalent circuit of the GIC connected to SEIG [11]. From Fig. 4, required for the VSI to maintain battery voltage in a safe range
the equations for P and Q drawn by the controller can be derived as without compromising the voltage regulating capabilities of VSI.
follows: where Vac is the terminal phase voltage of SEIG system;
VPWM the fundamental component of the ac output phase voltage
of the inverter; Iac the current through coupling inductance; Vdc the D.ELECTRONIC LOAD CONTROLLER
dc bus voltage; δ the phase angle between the voltages; m the
modulation index of the PWM inverter; ric the ratio of amplitudes The electronic load controller is an electronic device that maintains
between “VPWM” and “Vac”; Xs the coupling reactance; and k the a constant electrical load on the generator in spite of changing user
coupling transformer turns ratio. loads. This permits the use of turbine with no flow regulating and
their governor control system. The SEIG can be used to generate
constant voltage and frequency if the electrical load is maintained
constant at its terminals. The proposed ELC consists of an
uncontrolled rectifier and chopper with a series “dump” load. Proper
design of rectifier, chopper, and dump load is very important for
trouble free operation of ELC.[1,2,3,13] Uncontrolled hydro
turbines driving self-excited induction generators (SEIGs) are
Fig. 4 Per phase equivalent circuit of the GIC preferred which maintain the input hydro power constant needing
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the generated output power to be held constant at varying consumer
loads. This requires a controllable dump load connected in parallel
with the consumer load such that the total generated power is held
constant. Various types of electronic load controllers (ELCs) for
self-excited induction generators (SEIGs) have been reported in the
literature [2,3,4,12].
Some of the well-known methods are binary
weighted-switched resistors, phase-controlled thyristor-based load
controllers, controlled rectifier feeding dump loads, an uncontrolled
rectifier with a chopper-controlled dump load, etc. In the binary
weighted three-phase switched resistors, the total resistive load is
divided in to a different number of elements wherein the system is
bulky, prone to failure, and less reliable. In a phase-controlled
thyristor-based load controller, the phase angle of
back-to-back-connected thyristors is delayed from 0 to 180 as the Fig.6. Schematic diagram of three-phase SEIG with an ELC feeding
consumer load is changed from zero to full load. Due to a delay in three-phase consumer loads
firing angle, it demands reactive power loading and injects
harmonics in the system. It further requires complicated driver 2. Overvoltage: Against too high generator voltage. This is
circuits. In the controlled bridge rectifier type of ELC, a firing angle dangerous for many types of appliances. Normally, this can only
is changed from 0 to 180 for single-phase and 0 to 120 for happen with a compound type generator when the ELC or dump
three-phase to cover the full range of consumer load from 0 to loads fail. Because of this it is linked to the over speed protection.
100%. In this scheme, six thyristors and their driving circuits are An overvoltage situation might also occur if the generator AVR
required and, hence, it is also complicated, injects harmonics, and fails.
demands reactive power. The fourth type ELC consists of an 3. under voltage: Against too low voltage. Then electrical motors
uncontrolled rectifier with a chopper [a self-commutating device might be unable to start or might overheat.
such as an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)] in series with a
dump load and it has the following advantages. Drawback ELC is when it’s used in this system voltage rating of
1) In this scheme, only one switching device and its driving circuit uncontrolled rectifier and chopper should be should be same for
are required. So the scheme is very simple, cheap, rugged, and SEIG. Another limitation is when it is introduce in system a lot of
reliable. harmonics which has to be filtered.
2) It generates a low value of harmonics and does not demand
reactive power. Therefore, it is considered as the most suitable E. IMPROVED ELECTRONIC LOAD CONTROLLER
scheme for this application.
3) Only one dump load is required and, hence, it is inexpensive and B.Singh, S. S. Murthy and Sushma Gupta [4] proposed an improved
compact. electronic load controller is a combination of a three-phase insulated
gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) based current controlled voltage
In this paper, a detailed procedure of the analysis and design of source inverter (CC-VSI) which acts as a voltage regulator and a
ELCs for SEIG is given for fixed-point operation. Based on this high frequency DC chopper which keeps the rated power on the
design and analysis, prototypes of ELC are developed and tests are SEIG and generated voltage and frequency constant in spite of
performed on them with SEIG under steady-state and transient change of balanced/unbalanced loads. In Micro hydro plants,
conditions to verify the design methodology. The proposed ELC is governor unit of turbine can be eliminated using IELC, which is
the combination of an uncontrolled rectifier, a filtering capacitor, simple and cost effective. The proposed IELC acts as reactive power
chopper, and a series dump load (resistor). The schematic diagrams compensator, harmonic eliminator, load balancer and load
of ELC–SEIG systems are shown in Figs.6 for supplying controller.[4,13]. In this case, load balancing, reactive power
three-phase and single-phase loads with appropriately modified compensation and harmonic elimination should be provided for the
ELCs. The uncontrolled rectifier converts the SEIG ac terminal load by the CC-VSI The control technique to regulate the terminal
voltage to dc. The uncontrolled rectifier output has the ripples, voltage, load balancing, and harmonic elimination of the SEIG is
which should be filtered and, therefore, a filtering capacitor (C) is based on the controlling of source current.[12]
used to smoothen the dc voltage. An IGBT is used as a chopper
switch. A suitable gate driver circuit has been developed that turns
on the chopper switch when the consumer load on SEIG is less than F. DECOUPLED VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY (DVFC)
the rated load and turns off the chopper switch when consumer load CONTROLLER
on the SEIG is at a rated value. When the chopper switch is
switched on, the current flows through the dump load and consumes G.Kasal and B. Singh, [14],proposed controller is a combination
the difference power (generated power consumed power) which of a static compensator (STATCOM) and an electronic load
results in a constant load on the SEIG and, hence, constant voltage controller (ELC) for decoupled control of the reactive and active
and frequency at the load. powers of the induction generator system to control the voltage and
frequency respectively. In decoupled manner a new VF controller is
The ELC is fitted with three principal circuit protection features. proposed which is having ability of controlling the voltage and
The protection features are meant mainly to protect user appliances frequency. For controlling the voltage, a static compensator
against conditions that might destroy certain types of appliances: (STATCOM) is used as a reactive power compensator along with
1. Over speed: Against too high a frequency. It can occur if the ELC harmonic eliminator and a load balancer while for controlling the
or dump loads fail and the turbine speeds up to run-away speed. The frequency; an electronic load controller (ELC) is used to regulate the
emergency deflector system will also protect both the generator and total active power at the terminals of generator. The STATCOM is
the user circuits in this case. realized using IGBTs (Insulated gate bipolar junction transistors)
based voltage source converter (VSC), and a capacitor as an energy
storage element at its DC link, while an ELC consists of a diode
bridge rectifier, a chopper switch and an auxiliary load resistance.
Fig. 7 shows the system configuration of CEAG (capacitor excited
asynchronous generator), DVFC (Decoupled voltage and frequency
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controller) (consisting 3 leg IGBT based VSC and diode bridge conditions hence can control active power output of generator thus
rectifier based ELC) and the consumer loads. The delta connected controls the frequency.
3-phase capacitor bank is used for the generator excitation and value
of an excitation capacitor is selected to generate the rated voltage at IV. CONCLUSIONS
no load. The CEAG generates constant power and when consumer A voltage frequency controller with a battery at its dc link can
load power changes; the DC chopper of an ELC absorbs the control both active and reactive power. Under varying load
difference in power (generated-consumed) into an auxiliary load, conditions, the voltage is kept constant by injecting/absorbing
while STATCOM is used to regulate the voltage due to load reactive power and similarly, under varying active load, the
changes. Thus generated voltage and frequency are not affected and STATCOM maintains the voltage constant by injecting/absorbing
remain constant during the changes in consumer loads. [14] The active power. A brief review of the existing topologies for the
DVFC is an arrangement of a STATCOM with an ELC. STATCOM voltage and frequency control is also presented. The proposed
consists of IGBT based current controlled 3-leg VSC, DC bus controller has been established for parallel operated isolated
capacitor and AC inductors.. asynchronous generators in constant power application driven by
uncontrolled micro hydro turbines. It has been observed that the
controller is having capability of voltage and frequency regulation
along with harmonic compensation and load balancing. Besides, it
has resulted in a single point operation of the generators through
regulating the voltage, frequency, the load and capacitors to constant
value. Using the design criteria given here, the values of the ac
inductors, dc link voltage, dc link capacitor, and energy storage
parameters have been computed and their values have been selected
on the basis of considering their performance, safety, and
availability of the component rating. Development and research cell
needed for efficient performance of renewable systems .The control
system contains a voltage source inverter to stabilize the frequency
and a dump load to deal with voltage regulation
Fig 7.Schematic diagram of a proposed VF controller for an isolated
power generation
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