Reduction of Total Harmonic Distortion of Wind Turbine Active Power Using Blade Angle Adaptive PI Controller

Ahmed M. Shawqran, Abdallah El-Marhomy, Mariam A. Sameh and Mahmoud A. Attia
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Ahmed M. Shawqran: Physics and Engineering Mathematics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11835, Egypt
Abdallah El-Marhomy: Physics and Engineering Mathematics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11835, Egypt
Mariam A. Sameh: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Future University in Egypt, Cairo 11835, Egypt
Mahmoud A. Attia: Electrical Power and Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11835, Egypt

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-25

Abstract: Power quality can have a large detrimental effect on industrial processes and the commercial sector. Thus, this paper proposes a new technique to improve the power quality of electric power systems. This technique relies on auto-adjusting of the blade angle to mitigate the harmonics in wind generator active power. A new adaptive PI blade-angle controller is applied in this technique to reduce the total harmonic distortion ( THD ) of the output power. The parameters of the adaptive PI controller are initialized by using the Harmony Search algorithm (HSA), hybrid Harmony Search optimization and Equilibrium optimization (EO), and hybrid Harmony Search optimization and Teaching learning-based optimization (TLBO). The execution of the optimization algorithms relies mainly on the optimization objective function. Two optimization objective functions are mathematically modeled and compared to enhance the power quality. The first one is to minimize the sum square of error, while the second objective is to minimize the THD . Many case studies are applied with various wind-speed profiles under normal and faulty conditions. Results show the superiority of HSA hybrid EO algorithm with the second objective functions through reducing the harmonics and enhancing the power quality. Moreover, laboratory studies are applied to investigate the effect of the blade-angle variations on the extracted active power.

Keywords: wind turbine; adaptive PI; PID controller; power quality; total harmonic distortion; Harmony Search algorithm; equilibrium optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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