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A study of the flywheel capacity of the power compensator for the wind turbine generator
Author(s) -
Nakamura Hirokazu,
Koyanagi Akihiro,
Suzuki Yasunori,
Eguchi Naoya,
Sato Yoshihisa,
Shimada Ryuichi
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
electrical engineering in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1520-6416
pISSN - 0424-7760
DOI - 10.1002/eej.10122
Subject(s) - flywheel , steam turbine , wind power , compensation (psychology) , turbine , automotive engineering , electric power system , renewable energy , wind speed , power (physics) , electrical engineering , engineering , generator (circuit theory) , control theory (sociology) , computer science , environmental science , control engineering , meteorology , mechanical engineering , physics , psychology , control (management) , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , psychoanalysis
Nowadays, the Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) system is remarkably increasing as a renewable energy resource in Japan. But in the WTG, the power fluctuations caused by the wind speed fluctuation are the most crucial issue in providing their energy to the utility. It was found that a power compensation system (PCS) of suitable capacity is not yet available. In this paper, the time range and standardized wind speed including fluctuations are discussed. We estimated the storage capacity of PCS at different wind profiles by standardization of wind speed and verified the validity of their capacities using a computer simulation. In this way we determined the suitable capacity of the power compensation system. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 143(4): 64–71, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.10122