An Induction Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulator

A. Sokolovs; L. Grigans; E. Kamolins; J. Voitkans

doi:10.2478/lpts-2014-0009

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An Induction Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulator

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

Volume 51 (2014): Issue 2 (April 2014)

By: A. Sokolovs, L. Grigans, E. Kamolins and J. Voitkans

Open Access

|May 2014

Abstract

The authors present a small-scale wind turbine emulator based on the AC drive system and discuss the methods for power coefficient calculation. In the work, the experimental set-up consisting of an AC induction motor, a frequency converter, a synchronous permanent magnet generator, a DC-DC boost converter and DC load was simulated and tested using real-life equipment. The experimentally obtained wind turbine power and torque diagrams using the emulator are in a good agreement with the theoretical ones.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2014-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8896 | Journal ISSN: 0868-8257

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Language: English

Page range: 11 - 21

Published on: May 17, 2014

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Keywords:

wind turbine (WT),

wind turbine emulator,

wind energy conversion

Related subjects:

Physics,

Technical and applied physics

© 2014 A. Sokolovs, L. Grigans, E. Kamolins, J. Voitkans, published by Institute of Physical Energetics
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