POWER ELECTRONICS AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION - Centre of Excellence

Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology

Predictive Control of Doubly-Fed Induction Machine
by
Gonzalo Abad
University of Mondragon, Spain
 

PELINCEC seminar
05 February, 2008
10.00 h. Room 300 GE


SUMMARY OF THE PRESENTATION

Part 1: Brief presentation about the University of Mondragon.

• Geographical and historical approach of the university.

• Academic approach to the electronics department, faculty of engineering of the university.

• Internationalization strategy of the university.

• Research main topics and research structure of the electronics department.

• Facilities for research 1: Medium voltage and low voltage laboratories.

• Facilities for research 2: Simulation tools, experimental rigs, converters.

• Research activities: Relevant research projects and Ph.Ds.

• List of publications of 2007.

• Relationship with industry and research centers.

• Objectives of Gonzalo’s stay in Warsaw

Part 2: High Power and Medium Voltage Wind Turbines, based on Predictive Direct Control Techniques.

• Introduction.

  • Rotor side control of the doubly fed induction machine, for wind energy generation.

• High power and medium voltage wind turbine.

  • Medium voltage drives for industry applications.

  • Wind turbine manufacturers.

  • Consequences and scenario definition.

• Predictive DPC Control Strategy for High Power and Medium Voltage Wind Turbine.

  • Model of the doubly fed induction machine and the inductive filter.

  • Vector selection strategy.

  • Power error reduction criteria at constant switching frequency.

  • Derivative expressions.

  • DPC control block diagram (Table selection procedure).

• Experimental Validation

  • Experimental test bench

  • Steady-State behavior

  • Dynamic response

  • Tracking behavior

• Conclusions and Future Work.
   

Gonzalo Abad was born in Bergara in Spain, on October 11, 1976. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mondragon, Spain, in 2000 and an Msc degree in Advanced Control from the University of Manchester, U.K., in 2001. He joined the Electronics Department of the University of Mondragon, in 2001 and is currently an Associate Lecturer. He teaches courses in power electronics, power converters, control and robotics. His main research interests include renewable energies, power conversion and motor drives. He has published several papers in the areas of wind power generation, multilevel power converters and direct torque control of AC drives. He has participated in different industrial projects related to these fields. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Mondragon, with the thesis; Predictive Direct Control Techniques of the Doubly Fed Induction Machine for Wind Energy Generation Applications.

Contact: mpk@isep.pw.edu.pl