Technical Description

ENERCON Wind Energy Converters

Input Impedance
Technical Description
Input Impedance

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Document ID D0249611-6
Note Original document. Source document of this translation: D0234154-6/2018-01-31

Date Language DCC Plant/department

2018-10-05 en DA WRD GmbH / Validation

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Table of contents
1 Simplified method to determine the input impedance................................................ 4

2 Wind energy converter characteristics ...................................................................... 6

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1 Simplified method to determine the input impedance

Each ENERCON wind energy converter (WEC) has a synchronous generator decoupled
from the power grid via a rectifier stage, a DC link and an inverter stage. Power is fed into
the grid via inverter modules with a nominal apparent power of 330 kVA each, which are
energised sequentially depending on active power output.
The inverter stage, together with the upstream DC link, rectifier stage and generator can
be considered as a current source with high impedance.
For the specific input circuit, an input impedance/resonance can be derived as follows, us-
ing the WEC's transformer and filter circuits.
The figure below shows this input circuit:

L1
Power Cabinet 1

WEC
Transformer
L2 R

L1
Power Cabinet N

L2 R

Fig. 1: Transformer impedance and filter circuits of the inverter modules

The equivalent circuit for the transformer impedance and the filter circuit of the inverter
modules can be represented as follows:

Fig. 2: Equivalent circuit for transformer impedance and filter circuits of the inverter modules

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The table below shows the nominal values and parameters of the filter circuit:
Tab. 1: Filter circuit parameters
Parameter Nominal value
L1 80 μH
R 0.5 Ω
L2 100 μH
C 200 μF

For the simplified transformer equivalent circuit, the following values can be assumed for
the low-voltage side of the transformer. These values are examples applying to trans-
formers uK = 6 %, irrespective of the transformer ratio.

The values LT and RT for the transformer sizes indicated in tab. 2, p. 5 are es-
timates. The point of contact for project-specific questions regarding determina-
tion of the input impedance is EW-Engineering Support / Technical Support at
ENERCON Project & Logistics Management (pm-ew-technical-support@ener-
con.de).

Tab. 2: Transformer details

Nominal apparent power LT/phase RT/phase
of transformer
900 kVA 33.4 μH 2 mΩ
2500 kVA 12.1 μH 0.6 mΩ
2800 kVA 10.3 μH 0.5 mΩ
3500 kVA 8.6 μH 0.4 mΩ
3800 kVA 8.0 μH 0.4 mΩ
4200 kVA 7.2 μH 0.3 mΩ
4500 kVA 6.7 μH 0.3 mΩ

The impedance (Z) for the medium-voltage side can be calculated by means of the trans-
former ratio (tr).
2
ZMV = tr    ZLV

The E-126 EP4 and E-141 EP4 feed power into the medium-voltage grid via two
converter groups with two LV/MV transformers, each equipped with the same
number of inverter modules.
The input impedance (fig. 2, p. 4) is calculated with half of the installed inverter
modules (tab. 3, p. 6). The result is divided by the number of converter
groups.

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2 Wind energy converter characteristics

The table below shows the WEC characteristics relevant to calculating input impedance.
Tab. 3: Wind energy converter characteristics
WEC designation/ Nominal apparent power Number of
Nominal power/E-configuration of transformer inverter modules
E-44 200  kW FT 1x400  kVA 1
E-44 250  kW FT 1x400  kVA 2
E-44 500  kW FT 1x1000  kVA 3
E-44 900  kW FT 1x1000  kVA 3
E-44 900  kW FTQ 1x1100  kVA 4
E-48 800  kW FT 1x900  kVA 3
E-53 500  kW FT 1x900  kVA 3
E-53 800  kW FT 1x900  kVA 3
E-70 E4 1500  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-70 E4 2300  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-70 E4 2300  kW FTQ 1x2800  kVA 9
E-82 E2 2000  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 7
E-82 E2 2000  kW FTQ 1x2500  kVA 8
E-82 E2 2300  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-82 E2 2300  kW FTQ 1x2800  kVA 9
E-82 E4 2350  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-82 E4 2350  kW FTQ 1x2800  kVA 9
E-82 E4 3000  kW FT 1x3500  kVA 11
E-82 E4 3000  kW FTQ 1x3800  kVA 12
E-92 2000  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-92 2350  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-92 2350  kW FTQ 1x2800  kVA 9
E-101 3050  kW FT 1x3500  kVA 11
E-101 3050  kW FTQ 1x3800  kVA 12
E-101 E2 3500  kW FT 1x4200  kVA 13
E-101 E2 3500  kW FTQ 1x4200  kVA 14
E-103 EP2 2000  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 7
E-103 EP2 2000  kW FTQ 1x2500  kVA 8
E-103 EP2 2350  kW FT 1x2500  kVA 8
E-103 EP2 2350  kW FTQ 1x2800  kVA 9
E-115 3000  kW FT 1x3500  kVA 11

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WEC designation/ Nominal apparent power Number of

Nominal power/E-configuration of transformer inverter modules
E-115 3000  kW FTQ 1x3800  kVA 12
E-115 E2 3200  kW FT 1x3500  kVA 11
E-115 E2 3200  kW FTQ 1x3800  kVA 12
E-126 EP3 3000 kW FT 1x3500 kVA 11
E-126 EP3 3000 kW FTQ 1x3800 kVA 12
E-126 EP3 3500 kW FT 1x3900 kVA 13
E-126 EP3 3500 kW FTQ 1x4200 kVA 14
E-126 EP3 4000 kW FT 1x4500 kVA 15
E-126 EP4 4200  kW FT 2x2500  kVA 16
E-126 EP4 4200  kW FTQ 2x2800  kVA 18
E-141 EP4 4200  kW FT 2x2500  kVA 16
E-141 EP4 4200  kW FTQ 2x2800  kVA 18

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