Method and arrangement for operating a wind farm within voltage limit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9531193-B2
Application number	US-201213551055-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2012
Priority date	Jul 27, 2011
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A method for determining a limit value of a wind turbine reference operational variable is described The wind turbine being connected to a connection node to which a utility grid is connected. The method includes: obtaining a first input signal indicative of a connection node limit voltage; obtaining a second input signal indicative of a connection node voltage; and determining the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable based on the first signal and the second signal. Further a corresponding arrangement is described.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for determining a limit value of a wind turbine reference operational variable, the wind turbine reference operational variable is reference operational variable of a wind turbine, the wind turbine and a plurality of wind turbines being connected to a point of common coupling to which a utility grid is connected, the method comprising:
obtaining a first input signal indicative of a connection node limit voltage at the point of common coupling;
obtaining a second input signal indicative of a connection node voltage by measuring one or more voltages between two or more phases at the point of common coupling;
calculating the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable based on a difference between the first signal and the second signal, wherein the determined difference between the first signal and the second signal is used as a feedback signal supplied to a feedback controller, wherein the wind turbine reference operational variable is a wind turbine reference voltage at an output terminal of the wind turbine and the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is a voltage limit of the wind turbine reference voltage, and wherein the wind turbine reference operational variable is a wind turbine reference reactive power at an output terminal of the wind turbine and the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is a reactive power limit of the wind turbine reference reactive power, wherein the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable comprises an upper limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable, wherein the first input signal comprises a first upper limit input signal indicative of an upper limit of the connection node voltage, wherein the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable comprises a lower limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable, wherein the first input signal comprises a first lower limit input signal indicative of a lower limit of the connection node voltage;
and
controlling the reference operational variable of the wind turbine based on the determined limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable, in particular such that the reference operation variable is within the determined limit value.

2. The method according to claim 1 , scaling the difference to obtain a scaled difference; and integrating the scaled difference over a time interval to obtain an integrated scaled difference, wherein the determining the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is based on the integrated scaled difference, and wherein in particular the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is also based on the scaled difference.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining a preliminary upper limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable; and
obtaining a preliminary lower limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable,
wherein the determining the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is further based on the preliminary upper limit value and the preliminary lower limit value,
wherein in particular the limit value is limited to be within a range defined by the preliminary upper limit value and the preliminary lower limit value.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
limiting a rate change of the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable to a predetermined rate change range.

5. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising:
controlling the reference operational variable of the wind turbine based on the determined limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable, in particular such that the reference operation variable is within the determined limit value.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling is performable during at least one operational mode selected from the group consisting of: reactive power control at the point of common coupling; voltage control at the point of common coupling; and power factor control at the point of common coupling, wherein the operational modes are performable temporarily separated from each other.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein during the reactive power control at the point of common coupling the reference operational variable of the wind turbine is further based on a reference reactive power at the point of common coupling and a measured reactive power at the point of common coupling, wherein during the voltage control at the point of common coupling the reference operational variable of the wind turbine is further based on a reference voltage at the point of common coupling and a measured voltage at the point of common coupling, and wherein during the power factor control at the point of common coupling the reference operational variable of the wind turbine is further based on a reference power factor at the point of common coupling and a measured power factor at the point of common coupling.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the preliminary upper limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is based on the reference operational variable of the wind turbine, and/or wherein the preliminary lower limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is based on the reference operational variable of the wind turbine.

9. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the obtaining the second input signal indicative of a connection node voltage comprises measuring the connection node voltage.

10. An arrangement for determining a limit value of a wind turbine reference operational variable, the wind turbine reference operational variable is reference operational variable of a wind turbine, the wind turbine and a plurality of wind turbines being connected to a point of common coupling to which a utility grid is connected, the arrangement comprising:
an input for obtaining a first input signal indicative of a connection node limit voltage at the point of common coupling and for obtaining a second input signal indicative of a connection node voltage by measuring one or more voltages between two or more phases at the point of common coupling;
and a determining section for determining the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable based on the first signal and the second signal and for determining a difference between the first input signal and the second input signal, wherein the determining the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is based on the determined difference, wherein the determined difference between the first signal and the second signal is used as a feedback signal supplied to a feedback controller, wherein the wind turbine reference operational variable is a wind turbine reference voltage at an output terminal of the wind turbine and the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is a voltage limit of the wind turbine reference voltage, and wherein the wind turbine reference operational variable is a wind turbine reference reactive power at an output terminal of the wind turbine and the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable is a reactive power limit of the wind turbine reference reactive power, wherein the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable comprises an upper limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable, wherein the first input signal comprises a first upper limit input signal indicative of an upper limit of the connection node voltage, wherein the limit value of the wind turbine reference operational variable comprises a lower l

Assignees

• Andresen Björn
• Bo Yin
• Madsen Knud Dam Hageman
• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Andresen Björn
• Bo Yin
• Madsen Knud Dam Hageman

Classifications

• Y02E10/72

  Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction · CPC title

• H02J3/381

  Dispersed generators · CPC title

• H02J3/1885

  using rotating AC generators, e.g. synchronous generators · CPC title

• H02J3/50 Primary

  Controlling the sharing of reactive power · CPC title

• F03D9/257

  the wind motor being part of a wind farm · CPC title