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Optimum active power tracking based control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator tied to renewable microgrid Parida, Adikanda; Paul, Manish
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 15, No 1: March 2024
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v15.i1.pp422-430

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Among all the existing wind energy generators (WEG), a brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator (BDFRG) is the better option in terms of maintenance cost and constructional simplicity. For more adaptability, the efficiency of the BDFRG can be improved through proper control mechanisms. Therefore, this paper presents an optimum active power tracking-based control technique for BDFRG for minimum losses. Copper loss of the machine is considered to be the objective function for the proposed optimization technique. However, one issue found to be the major in all the existing controllers is the accuracy of sensor less control of the BDFRG. Therefore, this paper proposes an accurate model reference adaptive system (MRAS) based sensor less mechanism for computation of BDFRG secondary winding flux position. The no sensitivity of the proposed technique to the machine parameter variation and hence the accuracy, catch-on-fly, and non-inclusion of integrator and differentiators and hence less burden on the processor makes the proposed scheme robust. The control scheme is practically implemented with a 2.5 kW BDFRG using MATLAB/Simulink platform.
Sensorless control strategy for brushless doubly fed reluctance generator under voltage flickering at point of common coupling Paul, Manish; Parida, Adikanda; Das, Anu Kumar
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 15, No 1: March 2026
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v15.i1.pp383-392

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The brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator (BDFRG) is widely used in grid-connected wind energy conversion systems (WECS). It has been observed that there is a continuous voltage flickering at the point of common coupling (PCC) between the BDFRG power terminals and the alternating current (AC) microgrids due to either the load variations or wind turbine output variations. Under such circumstances, sensorless control of BDFRG using the existing model reference adaptive system (MRAS) models exhibits erroneous active power output. This is because the variables selected in these models are directly or indirectly dependent on the voltage at the PCC. In this paper, a sensorless control mechanism for the BDFRG is proposed, which provides better performance in terms of control accuracy. Moreover, the planned scheme is insensitive to the parameter variations of the BDFRG. The performance of the planned system has been tested with a voltage flickering of 50% for 1 ms at the PCC. The stability test presented in this paper reveals that the model is robust and error-free against the noise disturbances. The planned system is implemented using proper simulations and a hardware platform with a practical BDFRG of 2.5 kW, and a dSPACE CP1104 module.