For the conventional crowbar-based low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) strategies for doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)
not only is the flexibility of the driving converter not made full use of
but also today’s stringent grid-connection codes can hardly be well satisfied. Besides
some transient compensation based control strategies for asymmetrical grid fault are short of experimental verifications. Therefore
the electromagnetic transients of DFIG during grid faults are analyzed and discussed at length
based on which it is found that the high rotor terminal voltage during the process is mainly caused by the direct current (DC) and negative-sequence components included in the stator fluxes. To overcome the impact
an effective LVRT strategy is studied
in which some transient compensations based on the DC and negative-sequence components are provided to the rotor circuit timely and exactly. With the compensations
the magnitude of the transient rotor voltage is reduced to the lowest level for allowable rotor currents. As a result
the transient controllability of DFIG is strengthened
and the controllable range of voltage dip is expanded. Therefore
the performance of LVRT for DFIG is improved. The proposed analysis and design is validated by experiment on an 11 kW test-rig for wind turbines.