THE AC SERIES MOTOR AS A WIND TURBINE SIMULATOR

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Elec. Eng. Dept. Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, Egypt

Abstract

This paper introduces new wind turbine simulator using Ac series motor (universal
motor) to simulate the actual wind turbine in the steady-state mode of operation.
Mathematical analysis of proposed model is introduced to compute the performance
characteristics at a given wind velocities. The proposed analysis of Ac series motor
after applying the control, makes the motor characteristics coincides with the char￾acteristics of the wind turbine in the steady-state mode of operation. Three methods
of controlling the ac series motor to simulate the wind turbine are presented for real￾istic simulation of variable characteristics of wind turbine. The steady state results
are highly consistent with theoretical curve, indicating that ac series motor is a new
simple, cheap and an excellent method for simulating characteristics of wind turbine.

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