Method for controlling a generator of a wind turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11949352-B2
Application number	US-201917255234-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2019
Priority date	Jun 22, 2018
Publication date	Apr 2, 2024
Grant date	Apr 2, 2024

Abstract

Provided is a method for controlling, by means of field-oriented closed-loop control, an active rectifier which is electrically connected to a stator of a generator of a wind turbine. The generator has a rotor which is mounted so as to be rotatable about the stator and comprises the steps of determining a mechanical position of the rotor with respect to the stator, predefining DC components of rotor-fixed d and q coordinates for at least one 3-phase stator current, determining an AC component for the q coordinate at least as a function of the mechanical position of the rotor, modulating the determined AC component of the q coordinate onto the predefined DC component of the q coordinate, so that a modulated q coordinate is produced which has a DC component and an AC component, and controlling the active rectifier at least as a function of the modulated q coordinate and preferably as a function of the d coordinate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling, using field-orientated closed-loop control, an active rectifier electrically connected to a stator of a generator of a wind turbine, the stator having a rotational axis about which the rotor is mounted, comprising:
determining a mechanical position of the rotor with respect to the stator;
predefining directed current (DC) components of rotor-fixed d- and q coordinates for at least one three-phase stator current;
determining an alternating current (AC) component for the q coordinate and/or the d coordinate at least based on the mechanical position of the rotor;
modulating and/or adding:
the determined AC component of the q coordinate to the predefined DC component of the q coordinate to obtain a q coordinate having DC and AC components, and/or
the determined AC component of the d coordinate to the predefined DC component of the d coordinate to obtain a d coordinate having DC and AC components, and
controlling the active rectifier at least based on the obtained q coordinate and/or the obtained d coordinate.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:
determining the AC component for the q coordinate and/or the d coordinate based on a working characteristic curve of the generator.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:
acquiring an electrical angle as a function of the mechanical position of the rotor and the number of pole pairs of the generator; and
controlling the active rectifier based on the electrical angle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the generator includes a first three-phase winding system and a second three-phase winding system,
the first three-phase winding system is controlled based on a first electrical angle,
the second three-phase winding system is controlled based on a second electrical angle, and
the second electrical angle is different from the first electrical angle and is phase-shifted with respect to the first electrical angle.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the modulation and/or the addition is performed using an n-th harmonic electrical oscillation to minimize an m-th harmonic; mechanical oscillation of the generator, wherein n=m/2.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3 , comprising:
phase shifting the AC component of the q coordinate and/or the AC component of the d coordinate by a predetermined phase angle, and/or
phase shifting the electrical angle by a predetermined phase angle.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the active rectifier includes a first three-phase circuit and a second 3-phase circuit,
the first three-phase circuit is associated with a first electrical stator, and
the second three-phase circuit is associated with a second electrical stator.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:
controlling the active rectifier using abc coordinates that are back-transformed from the obtained q coordinate and/or the obtained d coordinate, the abc coordinates including at least one a coordinate that causes additional rotating fields to be produced.

9. A controller for a wind turbine having at least one generator including a stator with a rotational axis about which a rotor is mounted, and the stator being electrically connected to an active rectifier actuated using an actuator, the controller comprising:
a position circuit configured to determine a mechanical position of the rotor with respect to the stator and output an electrical position signal,
a transformation circuit configured to predefine DC components of rotor fixed d and q coordinates for at least one three-phase stator current, and
a damping circuit configured to modulate and/or add at least one AC component to a q coordinate and/or modulate and/or add at least one DC component to a d component, wherein:
the AC component is determined based on the electrical position signal and/or the DC component is determined based on the electrical position signal, and
the damping circuit is connected to the transformation circuit,

at least one modulated q coordinate is generated which has the DC component and the AC component and is output to the actuator made available for the actuator, and/or at least one changed d coordinate is generated which has the DC component and the AC component and is output to the actuator.

10. The controller as claimed in claim 9 , wherein
the damping circuit has a multiplier configured to operate on the electrical position signal and generate a changed electrical position signal.

11. The controller as claimed in claim 10 , wherein
the damping circuit is configured to add an offset to the changed electrical position signal based on a working characteristic curve of the wind turbine to generate an offset electrical position signal.

12. The controller according to claim 11 , wherein
the damping circuit is configured to generate a sinusoidal signal based on the offset electrical position signal and output a changing electrical position signal.

13. The controller according to claim 12 , wherein
the damping circuit includes an amplitude modification circuit configured to operate on the changing electrical position signal and based on a working characteristic curve of the wind turbine to produce the AC component.

14. The controller as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising:
a phase shifter configured to shift the electrical position signal by a predetermined absolute value and output the phase-shifted electrical position signal to the actuator.

15. The controller according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a phase shifting circuit configured to shift the at least one modulated q coordinate by a predetermined absolute value and generate a first modulated q coordinate for a first three-phase stator current of a first three-phase winding system of the wind turbine and a second modulated q coordinate for a second three-phase stator current of a second three-phase winding system of the wind turbine, and/or
a phase shifting circuit configured to multiply the at least one changed d coordinate by a predetermined absolute value and generate a first changed d coordinate for the first three-phase stator current of the first three-phase winding system of the wind turbine and a second changed d coordinate for the second three-phase stator current of the second three-phase winding system of the wind turbine.

16. A control system of the wind turbine, comprising:
the controller as claimed in claim 9 .

17. A wind turbine, comprising:
a generator including a stator with a rotational axis and a rotor mounted about the rotational axis, wherein the stator is electrically connected to an active rectifier, and
an actuator for the active rectifier, wherein
the generator includes two stators that are phase shifted by 30° and each connected to a three-phase module of the active rectifier, and
the actuation unit is configured to:
perform a first reverse transformation of a first modulated q coordinate and a d coordinate and of a first electrical position signal for the first three-phase module of the active rectifier, and
perform a second reverse transformation of a second modulated q coordinate and of the d coordinate and of a second electrical position signal for the second three-phase module of the active rectifier, wherein the second modulated q coordinate is phase shifted by 180° with respect to the first modulated q coordinate, and the second electrical position signal is phase shifted by 30° with respect to the first electrical position signal, and/or

the actuation unit is configured to:
perform a first reverse trans

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Gertjegerdes Stefan
• Cassoli Jair

Classifications

• H02P21/0003 Primary

  Control strategies in general, e.g. linear type, e.g. P, PI, PID, using robust control · CPC title

• F03D7/042

  by means of an electrical or electronic controller · CPC title

• F03D9/25

  the apparatus being an electrical generator (F03D9/22 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02K7/183

  wherein the turbine is a wind turbine (adaptation of a wind turbine to an electric generator F03D9/25) · CPC title

• H02P25/22

  Multiple windings; Windings for more than three phases · CPC title