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Mathematical Modeling and Simulation Analysis of A DC Motor Based
Wind Turbine Emulation System
Shefali Jagwani*, L. Venkatesha
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BMSCE, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560019, India. * Corresponding Author
Abstract
The cost of implementing an actual wind turbine is quite high,
therefore a wind turbine is emulated to obtain the
characteristics of a real wind turbine. The concept of emulation
involves the torque control of a DC motor according to the
reference torque generated from the turbine. In this paper, a
separately excited DC motor is controlled using a first quadrant
DC Chopper to obtain the wind turbine characteristics. First, a
MATLAB program is written to obtain the theoretical power
and torque characteristics of the turbine. Then, the turbine is
simulated using mathematical modeling of DC motor and
chopper to obtain the desired theoretical torques. The model is
tested for two different wind turbines and is validated using the
simulation results obtained. Also, both the turbines are
simulated with a three-phase rectifier and results are presented
which can be used for laboratory purpose. Hence, this paper is
intended to propose an accurate model which saves the cost of
actual implementation of turbine and provides a study platform
for researchers in this domain.
Keywords: Wind Energy Systems, DC Chopper, PI controller,
Wind Turbine Emulator
INTRODUCTION
In recent scenario, where there is a limited availability of
conventional sources, the renewable energy sources are
significant members of a power system. Wind power is one of
the commonly used renewable energy resource which has
various advantages like availability, cost, clean and green
energy, etc. [1]. A lot of research activities are being carried out
in this area, but it is difficult to implement an actual wind
turbine for research in laboratories. Therefore, a wind turbine
emulator is required which can emulate the actual behavior of
a turbine. Several authors have published their work in this
field. Researchers have used squirrel cage induction motors,
permanent magnet synchronous motors and separately excited
DC motors etc. to emulate the wind turbine. To emulate the
wind characteristics, the input wind speed profile is an
important aspect. Studies consider the input wind as a
stochastic or a deterministic profile. Authors have modelled the
wind by decomposing it in an average speed component and
high frequency fluctuations. Some studies have considered it as
a sum of several harmonics or variable scalar function versus
time.
Nomenclature
๐๐ mechanical output power (W)
๐ air density (kg / m3)
๐ฃ input velocity of the wind (m/s)
๐ด area swept by the rotor blades (m2)
๐ถ๐ Coefficient of performance
๐ Tip Speed Ratio
๐ radius of the blade (m)
๐ฝ pitch angle of the blade (degree)
๐๐ก rotational speed of the turbine (radians per second)
ฯ rated turbine speed
G gear ratio
S scaling factor
๐๐ก turbine torque
Authors have preferred inverter controlled induction machine
as a wind simulator over DC machine [2-3]. The paper [4] has
presented an induction motor driving a dc generator for
emulation. The effect due to wind shear and tower shadow are
studied in the paper [5]. In paper [6], flux and torque control of
induction motor is incorporated. Some of the papers have used
permanent magnet synchronous motor [7-8] in preference to
DC motor. Authors have used boost converters [8], rectifiers
[9-11] or other converters for the control of motor. Papers [12-
13] use forth quadrant chopper to obtain the wind simulator and
paper [14] implements the same using FPGA.
In paper [15], dc motor is used to drive self-excited induction
generator. Authors in Refs. [16], discuss the harmonics in the
torque generated due to torsional oscillation. A. Mahdy and
others [17] describes the implementation using analog
electronic circuits to generate a specific reference wind speed.
In [18], a three-mass system including a turbine, a gear box and
a generator connected with two elastic shafts is constructed. An
armature and field controlled motor is used in paper [19]. The
experimental verification for DC motor coupled to a double fed
induction generator for a 300W prototype is performed in [20].
A small wind conversion system is studied using a dc motor-
generator set which can be connected to a micro-grid [21].
Authors in [22] present the simulation, considering, the pitch
control and additional wind effects and shaft dynamics.
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In this paper, a separately exited DC motor is opted to emulate
a wind turbine. The obvious reasons for using a DC motor are
easy to understand concepts and less complicated speed and
torque control. As discussed above, the previous works done
use converters like a rectifier or a four-quadrant chopper. Some
of the authors have used mathematical modeling of turbine, but
the converter is generally not modelled using equations. In this
study, a mathematical model of a first quadrant DC chopper is
developed and applied to mathematical model of wind turbine.
PI based control is implemented to control the IGBT switches
of chopper. PI controller is also simulated using mathematical
equations. As the complete model uses mathematical
modelling for all the subcomponents, i.e. turbine, chopper, PI
controller and dc motor, the accuracy of the model can be
considered high compared to the ones available in literature.
Also, the model is simulated with a rectifier instead of a
chopper and results are presented for both the ac-dc and dc-dc
converters.
Fig.1 shows the block diagram for basic concept of wind
emulation system. To implement this work, the wind turbine is
first modelled using mathematical equations. Then, the
theoretical power and torque characteristics are obtained using
these equations in a MATLAB program. This theoretical torque
acts as the reference torque for closed loop control of DC motor
using mathematical model of first quadrant DC chopper. Thus,
an easy to implement wind emulator is mathematically
simulated using MATLAB and results are obtained for
deterministic wind speed profiles. Two different wind turbines
are simulated so that the results obtained can be considered
closer to the actual turbine. The torque obtained from dc motor
can be fed to the generator and the electricity can be supplied
to the load.
Figure 1. Basic concept of wind turbine emulation
WIND TURBINE MODEL
The mechanical output power obtained from the wind
generators is given by [10]:
๐๐ =1
2๐๐ด๐ฃ3๐ถ๐(๐, ๐ฝ) (1)
where, ๐ is the air density (kg / m3), ๐ฃ is the wind speed (m/s),
A is the area swept by the rotor blades (m2) and ๐ถ๐(๐, ๐ฝ)is the
performance coefficient.
The parameter ๐ถ๐ defines efficiency of power extraction. It is a
nonlinear function of Tip Speed Ratio (๐) and pitch angle of
the blade (๐ฝ). ๐ is the ratio of rotational speed of turbine (๐๐ก) to
linear speed of blade tips and is given by:
๐ = ๐๐ก โ ๐ /๐ฃ (2)
where, R is the radius of the blade. In this paper, a fixed pitch
turbine with varying speed is taken into consideration, hence
๐ฝ is kept fixed at 0ยฐ. Various versions of equation for obtaining
๐ถ๐ have been defined by authors in previously published
papers. In this paper, the following two equations (3), (4) are
used for ๐ถ๐ [23], [10]:
Turbine 1:
๐ถ๐ = 0.00234 + 0.03227๐ โ 0.076354๐2 + 0.061857๐3 โ
0.015155๐4 + 0.001514๐5 โ 0.000055๐6 (3)
Turbine 2:
๐ถ๐ = 0.5176(116(1/ ๐๐ โ 0.4 ๐ฝ โ 5)๐(โ21 โ 1/ ๐๐) +
0.0068 ๐ (4)
Where, 1/ ๐๐ = (1/( ๐ + 0.08๐ฝ)) โ (0.035/( ๐ฝ3 + 1)) (5)
Fig. 2a and Fig. 2b show the simulated plot of power coefficient
๐ถ๐ with Tip Speed Ratio for turbine 1 and turbine2 respectively.
It can be observed that the maximum ๐ถ๐ (0.3921) for turbine1
occurs at ๐ = 5.321 and for the turbine2, the maximum ๐ถ๐ (0.48)
occurs at ๐ = 8.148.
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Figure 2a. Power Coefficient curve for turbine1
Figure 2b. Power Coefficient curve for turbine2.
Fig.3a and Fig.3b show the power characteristics for both the
turbines for different wind speeds from 1m/s to 14 m/s and
rated speed is considered as 12m/s. These are the theoretical
values of power and torque which are obtained from a
MATLAB program using equations mentioned in this paper.
Figure 3a. Power Characteristics for turbine1.
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Figure 3b. Power Characteristics for turbine2.
The torque of the turbine is stated as:
๐๐ก=๐๐/ ๐๐ก (6)
Fig. 4a and Fig. 4b show the torque characteristics for both the turbines.
Figure 4a. Torque Characteristics for turbine1.
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Figure 4b. Torque Characteristics for turbine2
The other parameters of both the turbines which are used in this
paper are given in Table 1.
Here, G is the gear ratio and S is the scaling factor and can be
defined as:
๐บ = ๐/๐๐ก (where ฯ is the rated turbine speed) (7)
๐ = ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ / ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ (8)
Table 1. Wind turbine parameters
Parameter Turbine 1 Turbine 2
No. of blades 3 3
๐ฝ 0 0
๐ 1.08 1
R 2.5 1.5
G 7.4 0.5
S 1 1/3
Emulation of Wind Turbine Characteristics using DC
motor
A separately excited DC motor, whose parameters are given in
appendix, is controlled to follow the reference torque generated
by wind turbine at a given wind speed and rotor speed. The
emulation of the actual turbine means the machine torque must
be followed according to the generated torque and speed. To
obtain the closed loop torque of DC motor, the PI control is
used. The first quadrant DC chopper in continuous current
mode is used to control the motor. Also, the model is simulated
with a three-phase rectifier instead of DC chopper and results
are shown for both the turbines. The control strategy is shown
in Fig.5. In Fig.6, the simulation model with DC Chopper is
presented. Fig. 7 shows a subsystem which includes the
mathematical modelling of a first quadrant DC chopper. Fig.8
shows the input wind speed profile applied to the system.
Figure 5. Control Strategy for Emulation of wind turbine using chopper
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Figure 6. Simulink model of wind turbine emulation using DC chopper
Figure 7. Mathematical Model of Chopper Subsystem
Figure 8. Input wind speed
SIMULATION RESULTS
The proposed model is simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK
to obtain the desired torque and rotor speed. Fig 9,10, 11 show
the results obtained for turbine1. The torque is obtained by
simulating the turbines with rectifier and chopper. Fig. 9 shows
the generated torque of DC machine with chopper. Fig. 10
shows the torque obtained for same turbine with rectifier
controlled motor. It can be observed that the torque
characteristics obtained with simulation vary according to the
input wind speed and closely follows the theoretical torque
characteristics of the turbine 1 (Fig. 4). Fig. 11 shows the rotor
speed for turbine1 which also follows the speed obtained in
Fig.4.
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Figure 9. Generated Torque of DC machine with chopper for turbine1
Figure 10. Generated Torque of DC machine with rectifier for turbine1
Figure 11. Rotor speed of DC machine for turbine1
Fig.12, Fig.13 and Fig. 14 present the simulated results for
turbine 2. The generated torque of DC motor is shown with
chopper and rectifier respectively. Also, the rotor speed is
shown. It can be observed that the torque of the dc motor at 12
m/s is 8 Nm and it follows the theoretical turbine torque (shown
in Fig. 5). In Fig. 14, rotor speed at 12m/s is 50 radians per
second and it matches with the rotor speed shown in Fig. 5. This
can be verified for all the speeds. As the torque and speed are
following the reference turbine values, the results obtained are
closer to actual system. The simulated values are little lesser
than the theoretical values due to the frictional losses in DC
motor. The results are also verified for other input speed
profiles.
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Figure 12. Generated Torque of DC machine with chopper for turbine2
Figure 13. Generated Torque of DC machine with rectifier for turbine2
Figure 14. Rotor speed of DC machine for turbine2
CONCLUSIONS
The proposed model illustrated in this paper accurately
emulates the turbine characteristics for all the wind speeds. The
theoretical reference torque obtained from turbine is accurately
followed by the generated torque from the DC machine. The
mathematical model is tested for two turbines and results are
presented. Also, the model is tested for other input wind
profiles. The accuracy of the model is high as the complete
mathematical model is used for all the components including
turbine, first quadrant chopper, PI controller and motor. Also,
the results are shown for rectifier controlled DC motor. The
results presented in this paper can be used to study wind energy
systems and can save a huge cost of implementing actual wind
turbine.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors are grateful to Technical Education Quality
Improvement Program(TEQIP-III) for providing necessary
facilities for this research work.
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Appendix
DC Motor Parameters
Rated power 1 KW
Rated speed 1450 rpm
Rated armature voltage 120 V
Armature resistance 0.2ฮฉ
Armature inductance 73mH
Rated field voltage 240 V
Rated field current 0.88A
Mutual inductance 1.068H
Inertia 0.014kgm2
Friction coefficient 0.01Nms
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