Vestas Wind Systems A/s

Esmaeil Ebrahimzadehveshareh

Torsten Lund

John Godsk Nielsen

Gert Karmisholt Andersen

Poul Brandt Christensen

Kouroush Nayebi

Germán Claudio Tarnowski

Mark Faber

Limiting generator loads in a wind turbine having a power converter with a line side inverter configured as a grid forming inverter. A maximum grid current value is determined based on a measured generator load and a limit function. A virtual impedance value and a virtual voltage drop over the virtual impedance value are determined. A virtual synchronous machine angle is determined based on a power reference and the virtual grid power. The voltage reference for controlling the line side inverter is determined based on the virtual synchronous machine angle, the virtual voltage drop and the voltage magnitude reference.

Generator power peak limiting in virtual synchronous machine wind turbine

The invention relates to a method for controlling a power generating unit. The method includes determining a virtual impedance value, determining a virtual grid power based on the virtual resistance value and the grid current, determining a virtual synchronous machine rotational speed and/or a synchronous machine angle of a virtual synchronous generator, and determining a voltage reference for controlling a line side converter to generate the desired reactive power based on the virtual synchronous machine rotational speed or angle, a virtual voltage and the voltage magnitude reference.

Power generating unit with virtual synchronous generator with current limitation

The invention relates to a method for controlling power generation of a VSM wind turbine. The wind turbine comprises a machine side converter, a line side converter, a DC link, and an electric storage device electrically connected to the DC link. The method comprises determining a first power control signal to the machine side converter, determining a second power control signal for controlling a desired output power of the line side converter based on a storage device voltage error, and a power production reference, and determining a charging current reference for controlling charging and discharging of the electric storage device based on a DC-link voltage error.

Grid forming wind turbine with an electric storage

The invention relates to a method for damping drive train oscillations of a VSM configured wind turbine. The method comprises determining a drive train damping power signal based on speed signal representing a generator speed, determining a power deviation based on a combination of a power reference for a desired power production, the drive train damping power-signal, a grid power supplied by the line side converter to the grid and a damping power, determining a virtual synchronous machine angle based on the power deviation so that the derivative of the virtual synchronous machine rotational speed is indicative of the power deviation, determining a converter reference for controlling the line side converter to generate the desired active power based on the virtual synchronous machine angle and a voltage reference for a voltage amplitude to be generated by the line side converter, and applying the converter reference to the line side converter.

Wind turbine with virtual synchronous generator with damping control

The invention relates to a method for controlling a wind turbine as virtual synchronous machine by determining the synchronous machine rotational speed rotational speed and the synchronous machine angle. The virtual synchronous machine rotational speed is determined based on a combination of a feedback of a damping power, a power reference for a desired power output of the wind turbine, a grid power supplied by the wind turbine to a power grid and a chopper power dissipated by the chopper and an inertial integration model, the synchronous machine angle is determined based on an integration of the synchronous machine rotational speed, and the damping power is determined based on the virtual synchronous machine rotational speed.

Wind turbine with virtual synchronous generator and DC link control

The invention relates to controlling a power generating unit. Aspects of the invention include determining a virtual impedance value (Zvir), determining a virtual grid power (Pvsm) based on the virtual resistance value (Rvir) and the grid current (Igrid), determining a virtual synchronous machine rotational speed (ωVSM) and/or a synchronous machine angle (θVSM) of a virtual synchronous generator, and determining a voltage reference (Vabc) for controlling a line side converter to generate the desired reactive power (Qgrid) based on the virtual synchronous machine rotational speed or angle (ωVSM, θVSM), a virtual voltage (ΔVαβ, ΔVdq) and the voltage magnitude reference (Vqref).

The invention relates to a method for controlling a power generating unit such as a wind turbine which is configured as a virtual synchronous machine. Capacitor voltage signals obtained from voltage measurements of output capacitors are filtered in order to reduce a magnitude of an impedance peak and/or shift the impedance peak where the impedance peak is present in an impedance characteristic of the output of the power generating unit. Filter compensated voltage signals obtained from the output capacitors are combined with a voltage magnitude reference to obtain filtered capacitor voltage signals used for controlling the line side converter and thereby affect the impedance peak in a desired way.

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Esmaeil Ebrahimzadehveshareh