Wind, solar and energy storage electrical drive trains

• Understands the principles of electrical and control system operations of modern Wind Turbines, PV installations and Battery Electrical Storage.
• Understand and describe the steady state and dynamic models of the electrical components (equivalent circuits, control schemes) and use them to
• Simulate the Renewable Energy electrical systems drivetrains components (e.g. modern multi-MW wind turbines or part of the PV farm installation) to assess the performance of their operation.
• Learn and implement control concepts for Renewable Energy systems like Maximal Power Point Tracking for wind and solar systems, Field Oriented Control / Vector Control of motor drives and Active Front End grid connected converters.
• Demonstrate acquired knowledge in laboratory and evaluate the performance of systems based on simulations, comparative analysis with experimental validation
• Demonstrate acquired knowledge in laboratory experimental setup or high fidelity simulation model (eg: implementation of MPPT control for WT, FOC converter control (AC or DC) based systems,
• Write clear technical reports and
• Work effectively as part of a team

The course focuses on control and operation of electrical components and subsystems of wind and solar generation as well as the battery storage technology. The student will gain insight into the overview of wind turbine generator drivetrain and grid tied converter operation and control, electric energy storage system operation and control and PV system operation and control.

Students will get the opportunity to gain knowledge in the series of guided experimental projects, which will allow them to get familiar with most relevant technical systems in current/emerging in power system. Students, organized in groups will work on each technical/experimental project for 2-3 weeks after which they will rotate to the new setups. In this way, all students will experience all projects in rotation.

Technical projects students will be working on will be realised in terms of system application (WT, PV…), such as the ones mentioned in General Course Objectives. The underlying commonality among these are the components used to establish these systems, such are electrical power converters, machine, passive components, batteries, PV panels…. Thus, student will have the opportunity to work with same components in different applications/contexts, fortifying the components basics and principle of operation.

The experimental projects will be carried out using both simulation platforms (Simulink/MatLab, LabView and Comsol) and laboratory setups featuring embedded controllers (dSpace and cRIO) and will be base for a final report, students will need to present and defend as a group.

46700/46725/46550, Basic knowledge to power systems, high power electronics and electrical machines similar indicated courses

Guided simulations & experiments work in the laboratory.

E-learning is used in the form of MS team group and access to simulation/control tools