Renewables and Efficiency

A survey of fault diagnosis for onshore grid-connected converter in wind energy conversion systems

The fault diagnosis of wind converter is in continuous development in recent years. It reduces the downtime and maintenance cost of WECS. and improves the system availability and operational safety. This paper has surveyed typical fault modes of the fragile components in wind converter and has provided a comprehensive review …

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Stability Enhancement Of Dfig Wind Turbines By Parameters Tuning Of Shunt Connected Facts Devices Using Itae Index

In this article. our purpose was improving the DFIG stability with tuning of STATCOM control parameters. In order to select the objective function. we proposed a method with the name of integral of time absolute error index or ITAE then optimization process was done by genetic algorithm. Optimization results showed …

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Fifth harmonic and sag impact on PMSG wind turbines with a balancing new strategy for capacitor voltages

The new formulation for the electrical modeling of the three-level converter combined with the new control strategy reveals the capability in mitigating the unbalancing between the capacitors bank voltages. The THD of the output current with the two-level converter and with the three-level converter have propensity to be decremented with …

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Solar PV array reconfiguration under partial shading conditions for maximum power extraction using genetic algorithm

This paper presents Genetic Algorithm based reconfiguration scheme for the arrangement of PV modules in a PV array which exhibits increased array power generation under partially shaded conditions. The reconfiguration technique involves changes in the electrical interconnections for shade dispersion keeping the physical location of the PV modules unchanged. The …

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