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Reactive Power Control in Wind Power Plants

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Reactive Power Control in AC Power Systems

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Studies in this chapter have been performed on the interaction between wind farm, reactive power compensation, and the power system network. The fluctuation of the loads and the output of wind turbine units in power system have made the reactive power compensation an effective procedure. Considering the wind turbine power plant as a distributed generation unit, there would be some positive effect on the network, i.e. distributed system and upper hand grid reliability improvement, improving the environmental issues and development of power grid planning. In order to achieve better condition of reactive power in the network the existing conventional Asynchronous Induction motor (Constant Speed) should be replaced by Wound Rotor Synchronous Induction motor (variable speed), namely, Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG). The control system of a DFIG wind turbine is usually comprised of two parts: electrical and mechanical control. The former includes the control of converter in the rotor side and control of converter in the grid side and the latter includes the control of the angel of turbine blade. The standard IEEE 30-bus System is Consider as the test system. Three methods are applied. Newton-Raphson algorithm, using second generation of smart genetic algorithm with non-dominated sorting without any power plant, and the last is using second generation of smart genetic algorithm with the non-dominated sorting with the assumption of the presence of wind power plants . Results show that the presence of wind power plant is effective in improving the reactive power in the grid.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Alborz, Iran

    Reza Effatnejad, Mahdi Akhlaghi & Hamed Modir Zareh

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

    Hamed Aliyari

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Civil Aviation Technology College, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Effatnejad

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  2. Zanjan Electric Energy Distribution Company, Zanjan, Iran

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  3. Faculty of Electronics, Communication and Computers, University of PiteÅŸti, PiteÅŸti, Romania

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Effatnejad, R., Akhlaghi, M., Aliyari, H., Modir Zareh, H., Effatnejad, M. (2017). Reactive Power Control in Wind Power Plants. In: Mahdavi Tabatabaei, N., Jafari Aghbolaghi, A., Bizon, N., Blaabjerg, F. (eds) Reactive Power Control in AC Power Systems. Power Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51118-4_5

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