Open AccessDevelopment of a wind turbine simulator
Author(s) -
Sun Yuan,
Zhang Ji,
Zhou Yanru
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2051-3305
DOI - 10.1049/joe.2018.9098
Subject(s) - turbine , wind power , dc motor , torque , computer science , renewable energy , microcontroller , wind speed , automotive engineering , simulation , pulse width modulation , power (physics) , marine engineering , electrical engineering , engineering , mechanical engineering , voltage , embedded system , meteorology , physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
As a renewable energy source, wind power has become a hot research topic, despite the lack of wind‐environment simulation equipment in most laboratories. To address this shortcoming, this paper developed equipment based on a DC motor to simulate wind turbines. The reference torque is determined by the operational parameters of the wind turbine. The DC‐motor speed is regulated by using DC pulse‐width modulation, so that the output characteristics of the DC motor may be tuned to be equivalent to those of the wind turbine. A dsPIC30F2010‐microcontroller‐based hardware platform is used in experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.