Sensorless Control of Standalone Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator Feeding Unbalanced Loads in a Ship Shaft Power Generation System

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Journal Article
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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019, 66 (1), pp. 739 - 749
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2019-01-01
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© 1982-2012 IEEE. The standalone brushless doubly fed induction generator (BDFIG) has demonstrated excellent energy-saving performance in ship shaft power generation applications. As a standalone system, it exhibits unbalanced terminal voltages and poor performance under unbalanced loads. However, the existing control scheme of grid-connected BDFIGs cannot be directly applied to stabilize the amplitude and frequency of terminal voltage when the rotor speed and electrical load vary. This paper presents a new sensorless control scheme for the standalone BDFIG under unbalanced load conditions in the ship shaft power generation system. A second-order generalized integrator-based quadrature signal generator is introduced to realize the rotor speed observer for the standalone BDFIG feeding unbalanced loads. The compensation method of negative-sequence power winding voltage is proposed to eliminate the negative-sequence component of the unbalanced power winding voltage. Comprehensive experiments are carried out on a prototype BDFIG with and without the compensation of negative-sequence power winding voltage. The good performance of the proposed sensorless control scheme is verified by the experimental test results.
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