Control circuit and method for converters of wind turbines
View Patent ↗Controlling a converter of a wind turbine is disclosed. The converter is connected to a rotor of a doubly fed asynchronous generator in order to feed electrical energy into an electric network. The converter comprises a network-side inverter, a generator-side inverter, and a controller, which outputs target values for demanded reactive power to at least one of the inverters. A reactive power target signal is determined for the portion that the network-side inverter contributes to the demanded reactive power Q T , a slip signal is determined from the frequency of the network and the rotational speed of the generator, a gain value is calculated according to the slip signal, and the gain value is modified according to the reactive power target signal for the network-side inverter. The distribution of the reactive power between the two inverters is thus optimized over a wide operating range, not only at individual predetermined operating points.
1. A method for controlling a converter of a wind turbine, the converter connected to a rotor of a doubly fed asynchronous generator in order to feed electrical energy into an electrical network and comprising a network-side inverter, a generator-side inverter and a controller configured to output setpoints for demanded reactive power to at least one of the inverters comprising:
determining a reactive power setpoint signal for a portion that one of the inverters contributes to the demanded reactive power,
determining a slip signal from a frequency of the network and a rotational speed of the generator,
calculating a gain value as a function of the slip signal, and
modifying the reactive power setpoint signal for the one of the inverters using the gain value.
2. The method of claim 1 , comprising using an opposite of the reactive power setpoint signal for the other of the inverters.
3. The method of claim 1 , comprising calculating of the gain value using an equivalent function.
4. The method of claim 3 , comprising using a quadratic function as the equivalent function.
5. The method of claim 3 , comprising calling up the gain value from a look-up table.
6. The method of claim 4 , comprising taking additional correction terms into account.
7. The method of claim 1 ,
comprising
calculating the gain value based on node points.
8. The method of claim 7 , comprising linearizing using spline functions between the node points.
9. The method of claim 1 , comprising determining the gain value such that the network-side inverter is fully used in a rotational speed range down to the lower synchronous range, the machine-side inverter is fully used from the bottom to the top end of the synchronous range, and the machine-side inverter is partially used above the upper synchronous range.
10. The method of claim 9 , comprising increasing the gain value, at high values of the slip signal.
11. The method of claim 1 , comprising carrying out the modification by multiplication.
12. The method of claim 1 , comprising carrying out the reactive power calculation based on the current on the basis of a fixed voltage.
13. A wind turbine comprising:
a wind rotor,
a doubly fed asynchronous generator driven by the wind rotor, and
a converter comprising a network-side inverter, a generator-side inverter and at least one converter controller configured to feed electrical energy into a network,
wherein the controller is configured to apply setpoints for demanded reactive power to at least one of the inverters and comprises
a calculation unit configured to determine the contribution of one of the inverters to the demanded reactive power,
a gain block configured to calculate a gain value as a function of an applied slip signal, and
a modulator configured to modify the gain value determined by the gain block onto a reactive power setpoint signal determined by the calculation unit for the one of the inverters.
14. The wind turbine of claim 13 , wherein the converter with its controller is configured to carry out the method of claim 2 .
15. The method of claim 9 , comprising increasing the gain value at high values of the slip signal above the top end of the slip region.
16. The method of claim 9 , comprising increasing the gain value at high values of the slip signal up to the maximum.
17. The method of claim 1 , comprising carrying out the reactive power calculation based on the current on the basis of a fixed voltage comprising the lower tolerance voltage.