Analysis of A Multi-Level Neutral Point Clamped Inverter Based Grid Connected PMSG-Based Wind Energy Conversion System
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ghosh, Atanu; Pal, Yash
- Source
- 2022 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT) Intelligent Technologies (CONIT), 2022 2nd International Conference on. :1-7 Jun, 2022
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- Aerospace
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Insulated gate bipolar transistors
Maximum power point trackers
Reactive power
Torque control
Rectifiers
Pulse width modulation
Control systems
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG)
Maximum PowerPoint Tracking (MPPT)
Neutral Point Clamped (NPC)
Field Oriented Control (FOC)
Phase Disposition Pulse Width Modulation (PD-PWM)
Direct Torque Control (DTC)
- Language
In this paper, a permanent magnet synchronous generator-based direct driven wind turbine with a diode rectifier is operated with a two-level boost chopper for maximum power point tracking purposes. The variability and intermittency of wind speed is a drawback for maximum power extraction. A perturb and observe algorithm is applied in place of a conventional anemometer for higher accuracy and ease of computational calculation. After diode-based rectification and two-level DC to DC boost conversion, a three-level neutral point diode clamped inverter is used for grid integration purposes. Field-Oriented Control is used as grid side converter control topology for decoupling control of active and reactive power by changing the d and q axis currents in the d-q reference frame. Phase disposition pulse width modulation technique is used here for generating the gate pulses for insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) switches of three-level neutral point clamped inverter due to its higher efficiency over the rest of the multicarrier based pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques. This proposed topology is compared with another efficient technique, where the machine-side IGBT -based converter is controlled by the Direct- Torque-Control technique without using any computer-based maximum power point tracking control algorithm.