Development of a 20 kW wind turbine simulator with similarities to a 3 MW wind turbine

Platform for design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of small wind turbines

“…To emulate the WT behaviour, a coupled motor-generator setup, which is controlled via power electronic devices, is usually required. In the literature, different electric machine types have been used as primemovers in developing the WTE including induction motors (IMs) [19,20], permanent magnet synchronous motors [21,22], and DC motors [23,24]. Analysis of the previous research demonstrates that the induction machines are the most attractive motors used as prime-movers in WTEs due to their low cost, low maintenance requirement, and high robustness.…”

“…A few papers considered some dynamics of the WT for WTE development such as [21,24]. However, these studies were dependent on the available design and models and the authors tried to emulate the existing models with more details.…”

Scaling of wind energy conversion system for time-accelerated and size-scaled experiments

“…Coupled with an adequate control, this method allows reproducing at small scale the behaviour of certain full-scale system aspects. Some authors developed a 20 kW small-scale simulator to study the control dynamics of the inverter for more powerful wind turbine, using design criteria [14,17,18]. Unfortunately, these criteria are specific to wind turbine and not applicable to other systems.…”

Intelligent fault diagnosis of synchronous generators

“…It was reported that, the measured vibration and strain values at the gear box and blade root in the simulator have similarities to the actual wind turbine. The authors also suggested that the quantitative values measured from simulator could be used to develop intelligent system for fault diagnosis (Oh et al, 2014). However, no study has been made in the reported work, on fault diagnosis using the quantitative values measured from the simulator.…”