Coordinated Low-Voltage Ride-Through Control of a Flywheel-Assisted Permanent-Magnet Direct-Drive Wind Power System Under Asymmetrical Grid Faults
To address fault-period DC-link overvoltage, the reduction in grid-side active-power regulation margin caused by reactive-current-priority operation, and the double-frequency current fluctuation induced by negative-sequence components under asymmetrical grid faults in a flywheel-assisted permanent-magnet direct-drive wind power system, this paper proposes a coordinated low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) strategy based on DC-link-voltage-threshold partitioning. According to the DC-link voltage level, the operating process is divided into a normal regulation region, a grid-side saturation region, and a flywheel activation region, thereby enabling coordinated regulation between grid-side reactive-current support and flywheel-side active-power absorption. To improve transient smoothness, an anti-windup mechanism together with a bumpless transfer scheme is incorporated into the coordinated control process to suppress integrator saturation and mitigate mode-transition disturbances. In addition, a grid-side proportional–integral–vector resonant controller (PI-VRC) is introduced to improve the suppression of double-frequency current fluctuation under asymmetrical faults and enhance converter capacity utilization. Simulation results show that the proposed strategy can effectively restrain fault-period DC-link voltage rise, improve three-phase current symmetry and grid power quality, and strengthen transient reactive-power support, thereby enhancing the asymmetrical-fault LVRT capability of the system.
Authors
- Zicheng He
- Y Wang
- Sufang Wen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7978-4319)
- Dahai Guo
- Guangchen Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4979-6487)
- Guizhen Tian
- Jianwei Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5304-6297)
Institutions
- Inner Mongolia University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Energies
- Published
- 2026-05-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en19102476
- Primary Topic
- Wind Turbine Control Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Key Research and Development Program of China