Terminal voltage regulation & output fluctuations minimization using governor-exciter controller

Abstract

Energy is essential to life and the major source of energy comes from fossil fuels. As the human population increases, our rate of consumption of these fossil fuels also increases. On the other hand, world population continues to grow and the limited amount of fossil fuels begin to diminish, it may not be possible to provide the amount of energy demanded by the world by only using fossil fuels to convert energy. The solution to the problems of limited fossil fuels and their impact on the environment is to have renewable resources play a larger role in the supply of energy. In this case wind energy is the most promising green energy. As wind turbine output is proportional to the cube of wind speed, the wind turbine generator output fluctuates due to wind speed variation. Thus this paper focuses on the comparative study between conventional wind turbine models with modified pitch controller and proposed a new technique called modified pitch governor with exciter controller to control output voltage and frequency without using any costly energy storage devices. In this study variable load is considered and real wind speed data is taken to obtain realistic response. PSCAD/EMTDC software is used for simulation analyses.