High Voltage Ride through Strategy of Wind Farm Considering Generator Terminal Voltage Distribution

• Main Authors: Yanhui Qin, Zeyu Cao, Zhichao Yang, Bingtuan Gao, Xuetao Dong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: wind power transmission; DC blocking; doubly fed induction generator; synchronous condenser; high voltage ride through
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/3/1248

When wind power is transmitted via high-voltage direct current (HVDC), the problem of high-voltage ride-through (HVRT), caused by direct-current (DC) blocking must be seriously taken into account. All the wind turbines in a wind farm are usually equivalent to a single turbine in the existing research on HVRT, which ignores the generator terminal voltage distribution in a wind farm. In view of the fact that the severity of fault voltage felt by each wind turbine in the field is different, an improved HVRT strategy considering voltage distribution is proposed in this article. First, this article analyzes the mechanism of voltage swell failure caused by DC blocking, and the characteristics of the generator terminal voltage distribution in wind farms. Second, the reactive power characteristic equations of the synchronous condenser and the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) are derived. Third, based on the extraction of the key node voltage, this article takes the key node voltage as the compensation target, and put forwards a HVRT strategy combining the synchronous condenser and wind turbine. Finally, the simulation is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy in improving the HVRT capability of all wind turbines.