Wind Turbine Electric Signals Simulator

Sorin Sintea (), Cornel Panait, Bogdan Hnatiuc, Marian Tirpan, Catalin Pomazan and Mihaela Hnatiuc
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Sorin Sintea: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Constanta Maritime University, 900663 Constanta, Romania
Cornel Panait: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Constanta Maritime University, 900663 Constanta, Romania
Bogdan Hnatiuc: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Constanta Maritime University, 900663 Constanta, Romania
Marian Tirpan: ENERCON Services Carpathians SRL, 011471 Bucharest, Romania
Catalin Pomazan: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Constanta Maritime University, 900663 Constanta, Romania
Mihaela Hnatiuc: Electronic Engineering Department, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Constanta Maritime University, 900663 Constanta, Romania

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 18, 1-14

Abstract: The development of green technologies in recent years in the field of wind energy conversion into electricity implies a technology transfer from the static switching field to the energy field. This paper presents a wind turbine simulator using a hardware solution following the energy conversion of a real turbine. We implemented this solution for educational and research purposes to train students in the process of electrical conversion in wind turbines. For the simulation, we chose an E82/2300 turbine, installed by ENERCON in a nearby geographical area. The turbine has the capacity to generate 2300 kW of electricity into grids. It has a direct coupling structure of the propeller to the generator. The solution is implemented on a multi-processor architecture with analog signal processing. The structure of a wind turbine is divided into three consecutive blocks, namely TUGEN, DCDC4X, and SIN3F. Each block of the simulator is designed with electronic components. The input and output signals of these blocks have similar waveforms to real signals, and their succession is interconditioned by process parameters. The innovation of the proposed solution is provided by software engineering applied to a hardware structure. The ratio between the simulated and real values is 1:60 in order to visualize the signals on a digital oscilloscope, mainly for educational purposes.

Keywords: wind turbine simulator; energy conversion; multi-processor architecture; software engineering (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: 2025
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