A. Dahbi, N. Nait-Said, and M. S. Nait-Said, “
A novel combined MPPT-pitch angle control for wide range variable speed wind turbine based on neural network,”
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 41 N 22, pp. 9427-9442, 2016.
AbstractThe objective of this paper is to develop a novel combined MPPT-pitch angle
robust control system of a variable-speed wind
turbine. The direct driven wind turbine using the
permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) is connected to the grid by means of fully controlled frequency converters, which consist of a
pulse width-modulation PWM rectifier connected to an
inverter via an intermediate DC bus. In order to maximize the exploited
wind power and benefit from a wide range of the wind speed, a novel combined
maximum power point tracking (MPPT)-Pitch angle control is developed using only one low cost circuit based on Neural Network (ANN), which allows the PMSG to operate at an optimal speed to extract maximum power when this last is lower than
nominal power, and limit the extra power. To achieve feeding the grid with high-power and good quality of
electrical energy, the inverter is controlled by (PWM) in a way to deliver only the active power into the grid, and thus to obtain a unit power factor. DC-link voltage is also controlled by the inverter. The dynamic and steady-state performances of the
wind energy conversion system (WECS) are carried by using
Matlab Simulink.