PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE GENERATOR

Document Type : Original Article

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Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minoufiya University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt

Abstract

In this paper, a successful design for a 3-phase 6/4 switched reluctance generator (SRG) has been
developed, analyzed and tested. The performance characteristics of such a generator type are fully
studied using a nonlinear mathematical model. A control technique by which the output power of
the SRG can be successfully controlled to follow the maximum output power of a wind turbine
drive application has been proposed. Moreover, stabilization of the output voltage of the SRG
under varying load conditions is also presented. Meanwhile, the real-time operation was
implemented in a digital signal processor (DSP) environment. Digital simulation studies have been
carried out for the proposed analysis and the results are compared to those of a practical one. A
good agreement between simulation and experimental results has been observed which supports 
the validity of the proposed analysis.

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