| Author | Arachechige, Lidula Nilakshi Widanagama |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.ET-06-18 |
| Subject(s) | Wind power--Climatic factors
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | There is a dawning of a new age of clean, green energy with the increasing concerns about global warming and increasing fossil fuel prices. Renewable energy sources are becoming the most promising means of producing clean energy and wind power generation is one of the most matured technologies. With the increasing interest on wind power generation, size of the wind farms has also been increased. Among the different types of wind power technologies, conventional type wind turbines are still been used in large scale wind power generation. Although, these conventional type wind turbines are cheep, simple and robust, they cannot supply their own excitation current, and thus they absorb reactive power from the power system if not compensated. There has been very few work carried out on studying the effect on static voltage stability of power system with the introduction of a wind farm. Also there is no proper methodology has ever been proposed in placing a wind farm in a power system. An effort has carried out in this thesis to study the influence of a large scale wind farm on a power system, static voltage stability and to propose an index to place a large scale conventional wind farm in a power system. It was found that wind farm interconnection Bus voltage and wind speed are the most dominating factors in placing the wind farm. Interconnection Bus orientation in the power system, relative weakness of the Bus and interconnection cable length also found to show considerable effect on static voltage stability of a power system. It was found that wind farm size has a significant influence on static voltage a stability of power system, depending on where the wind farm is connected. The proposed index is entirely based on the static voltage stability of a power system. All the factors considered in formulating the index are well analyzed and justified using a test system. Accuracy of the proposed index was justified by applying it to a test system and two practical power systems. Thesis recommends that the proposed "Wind Farm Placement Index" is accurate and reliable to apply in any power system |
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Energy Technology (ET) |
| Chairperson(s) | Nadarajah Mithulananthan; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Surapong Chirarattananon ;Weerakom Ongsakul ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of France
AIT Fellowship ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 |