Optimal Energy Harvesting of Large-Scale Wind Farm Using Marine Predators Algorithm

Abstract

A new optimal control strategy for the grid side converter (GSC) and rotor side converter (RSC) of a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) is developed in this paper using the Marine Predators algorithm (MPA). To accomplish this study, a comprehensive comparison between the suggested MPA-based control strategy and a well matured Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO) to enhance transient stability of large-scale wind systems has been presented. MPA is used to determine the optimal gains of proportional-integral (PI) controllers for GSC and RSC to ensure a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of a large-scale wind farm. The proposed optimal control strategy is analyzed and verified via a benchmark 9-MW DFIG wind farm using MATLAB/SIMULINK simulation. The attained results of the suggested MPA-PI-based controllers are compared to the conventional PI-based MPPT controllers to validate the efficacy of the developed optimal control strategy. The superiority of the proposed MPA-PI and PSO-PI-based optimal controllers over the traditional PI regulators towards enhancing the DFIG system dynamic performance has been proved. The presented MPA-PI-based control scheme has been succeeded in extracting the maximum power of the DFIG wind farm with a reduced settling time of about 1.8% and overshooting range 97% lower than the conventional controller.

Keywords

• Doubly fed induction generator
• grid side converter
• marine predators algorithm
• maximum power point tracking
• particle swarm optimization
• wind plant’s performance