Wind, solar and energy storage electrical drive trains

• Gain insight in electrical energy and control system 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)
• Simulate the Renewable Energy electrical systems drivetrains components (eg. modern multi-MW wind turbines or part of the PV farm installation).
• 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 grid connected converters
• Evaluate the performance of systems based on simulations and comparative analysis
• 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,
• Report professionally on the simulation and experimental work
• Work effectively and independently 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 and grid tied converter operation and control, electric energy storage system operation and control and PV system operation and control.

Students will apply their engineering skills and knowledge they acquired in introductory part of the course in one of the focused areas of their interest, by choosing one project to work on during the course. In the project, students will get the chance to work with experimental setups and expand the knowledge and experience with specific technology by working on hardware and tackling the common problems which are encountered in practices.

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

Lectures, simulations, experiments and practical implementation in the laboratory.

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