Torque Limit-based Inertial Control Method Based on Delayed Support for Primary Frequency Control of Wind Turbines

Abstract

To avoid the secondary frequency dip caused by the steep drop of the electrical power of wind turbines (WTs) at the end of frequency support stage, the torque limit-based iner-tial control (TLIC) method sets the power reference as a linear function of rotor speed, rather than the step form for the step-wise inertial control. However, the compensation effect on the frequency nadir (FN) caused by the load surge is weakened as the TLIC power is no longer in the step form. Specifically, the maximum point of the frequency response component (FRC) contributed by TLIC occurs earlier than the minimum point of FRC corresponding to the load surge, so that the FN cannot be adequately raised. Therefore, this paper first investigates the relation between the peak and nadir times of FRCs stimulated by the TLIC and load power. On this basis, with the compensation principle of matching the peak and nadir times of FRCs, the improved TLIC method based on delayed support is proposed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is validated via the experiments on the test bench of wind-integrated power system.

Keywords

• Wind turbine
• frequency response component
• torque limit
• inertial control
• delayed support