PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PMSG BASED WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM

Abstract

Due to the increasing concern about the various aspects of conventional generating units such as depleting fossil fuel, environment issues like release of pollutants in the air have forced the research companies to exploit the renewable energy resources using small generating units. One of the renewable energy sources is wind energy which has a great potential and being exploited by many. The share of the wind energy in the power sector is quite less, but nowadays its share is growing at high rate. Consequently, researchers have been trying to develop ways to take advantage of different types of clean and renewable energy sources. Wind energy production, in particular, has been growing at an increasingly rapid rate, and will continue to do so in the future. In fact, it has become an integral part in supplying future energy needs, making further advancements in the field exceedingly critical. Basically the work reported in this thesis is performance analysis of PMSG based wind energy conversion system during the different operating conditions. PMSG has been utilized in this system due to its various advantages over other generators. The model based on wind energy system has been implemented into the MATLAB/SIMULINK software and simulation results regarding the performance of the system is studied and discussed under normal and fault operating conditions.