Adama Science and Technology University Department of

Electrical Power and Control Engineering

Scientific Research Methods and Presentation

Title: Direct power control strategy based variable speed pumped

storage system for the reduction of the wind power fluctuation
impact on the grid stability
By: Metasebia Fisseha

2/12/2023

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 OUTLINES

Introduction
Control strategies for the VSC
Results and Discussion
conclusion

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 Energy consumption
The amount of energy
produced globally is higher than
it was previously, there is
currently a shortage of energy.
people need fossil fuels (such
as oil, coal, and natural gas) to
carry out their daily tasks.

Fig1. environment pollution

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 Due to increasing environmental concerns, wind power
generation has undergone rapid growth.
Wind energy production has many advantages; it is
 ecofriendly,
 sustainable,
 space efficient,
 incredible domestic potential,
 has low operational cost,
 revitalizing to rural economies, etc.
 However, the major drawback of wind power is its
intermittency and stochastic in nature over time.
As a result, significant wind power fluctuations can be
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 Wind turbine description

Fig2. wind energy turbine component

Kinetic Mechanical Electrical

energy energy energy
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The aim of control wind turbine in three region : cut
in speed, rated speed and cut out speed to protect
equipment and to extract maximum power.

Fig3. power verses wind speed

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The following assumptions are taken:
The power losses in the converters are neglected.
The switching dynamics are also neglected because
the pulse width modulation frequency in three-level
VSC NPC is much greater than the system frequency
Thus, the model of the VSC NPC is developed as in
= (1)
= (2)
where udqr, udqg and mdqr, mdqg are converter
injected voltages and modulated signals respectively in
the rotor and grid side converters. 7
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• A direct power control (DPC) strategy is employed
to have fast response and lets the control system
compensate the wind power fluctuations directly
and effectively.
• An external set point, Pset which is the input to the
power control system, The set point depends on the
VSPS capacity and the situation of the power grid.
• Equations of active power and reactive power :
• (4)
• (5)

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The PI control of Ki(s)
is defined by:
(6)

Fig4. The current control structure of the VSC NPC1

mathematical equations the rotor dynamics model

+(7)
-()(8)

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Fig5. The active power control
structure of the VSC NPC1
The models and details of the
reactive power control in both
rotor side and grid side
converters and DC voltage
control in the grid side
converter.
Cont.….
Considering the power
command Δpwind to the VSPS
power control unit, it is
computed by
Δ
where Pwind is the wind farm
power measured, and Pset an
assumed forecasted power
output. This Pwind is added to
the power command Pop_vsps
to feed the fluctuated wind
power to the control loop for
regulating.
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• A grid frequency response is observed with the
deviations of ±0.04Hz while the active power is
regulated to track the wind power fluctuation.

Fig6. grid frequency response associated with

control of the VSPS active power
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• when the reference reactive power Q_ref=0pu, the
controller tracks its reference value.
• To maintain the AC voltage at its nominal value of 18 kV,
Thus, 22 MVar is required to be generated and
equivalently Q_ref=0.067pu is suppled at time t=25sec .

Fig7. AC voltage response associated with control of the

VSPS reactive power
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CONCLUSION
DPC based VSPS system for the reduction of
wind power fluctuation impact on the grid
stability.
Mathematical models based on phasor model
technique is presented.
The results show that the proposed control
strategy for the VSPS system achieves well-
regulated grid frequency and AC voltage with
small errors of acceptable ranges in the power grid
system in spite of the wind power fluctuations.
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