Advanced Simulation of Alternative Energy

Simulation with Simulink® and SimPowerSystems™

Viktor M. Perelmuter

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367339579
• eBook ISBN: 9781000053142
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Advanced Simulation of Alternative Energy: Simulations with Simulink® and SimPowerSystems™ considers models of new and promising installations of renewable energy sources, as well as the new trends in this technical field. The book is focused on wind generators with multiphase generators, models of different offshore parks, wind shear and tower shadow effect, active damping, system inertia support, synchronverter modeling, photovoltaic cells with cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverters, operation of fuel cells with electrolyzers and microturbines, utilization of ocean wave and ocean tide energy sources, pumped storage hydropower simulation, and simulation of some hybrid systems. Simulink® and its toolbox, SimPowerSystems™ (its new name Electrical/Specialized Power Systems), are the most popular means for simulation of these systems. More than 100 models of the renewable energy systems that are made with use of this program environment are appended to the book. The aims of these models are to aid students studying various electrical engineering fields including industrial electronics, electrical machines, electrical drives, and production and distribution of electrical energy; to facilitate the understanding of various renewable energy system functions; and to create a platform for the development of systems by readers in their fields. This book can be used by engineers and investigators as well as undergraduate and graduate students to develop new electrical systems and investigate the existing ones.

1

SimPowerSystems Blocks and Units Used for Simulation of the Renewable Energy Systems

1.1 Standard Blocks

The set of SimPowerSystems blocks, Ref. [1], contains the models of rather complex devices and units, whose fields of application are production, transmission, transformation, and utilization of the electric power, electrical drives, and power electronics. Renewable sources of the electrical energy belong to these types of systems, and SimPowerSystems can be successfully used for their creation, simulation, and investigation.

SimPowerSystems operates in the Simulink^® environment that allows it to create the system model with the help of the simple procedure “click and drag.” After placing the demanded blocks on the model diagram, they are connected according to the system functional diagram. Before the simulation starts, the block parameters must be specified in the block dialog boxes. They can be given as numerical values or letters, the latter is reasonable when the same parameter is present in the several blocks. In this case, the values of parameters are determined either in the option File/Model Properties/Callbacks/Init Fcn or are calculated with a MATLAB^® program (MP) with extension .m; this program must be executed before the simulation starts. Its execution can be actuated manually, or the command “run <MPname>” has to be written down in the option mentioned earlier.

This chapter presents a brief description of the SimPowerSystems blocks that are mostly used in the models of renewable energy systems developed in this book. A more complete description of these blocks and others, not mentioned here, is given in Refs. [1–3].

1.1.1 Electrical Sources

A number of models of one- and three-phase electrical sources are included in the library of SimPowerSystems: (1) DC Voltage Source, (2) AC Voltage Source, (3) AC Current Source, (4) Controlled Voltage Source, (5) Controlled Current Source, (6) Three-Phase Source (with the inner impedance), (7) Three-Phase Programmable Voltage Source, and (8) Battery. The direct voltage (V) is ass...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• 1. SimPowerSystems Blocks and Units Used for Simulation of the Renewable Energy Systems
• 2. Wind Generator System Simulation
• 3. Photovoltaic Energy Sources
• 4. Fuel Cell and Microturbine Simulation
• 5. Hydro and Marine Power Plants
• 6. Hybrid System Simulation
• List of the Appended Models
• Index