SIMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WIND ENERGY SYSTEM WITH SQUIRREL CAGE INDUCTION GENERATOR (WES-SCIG)

This project investigates wind energy system in general form, which is a part of renewable energy. The aim is to can calculate the minimum terminal capacitance of the induction generator. In this study, a wind turbine generator is proposed as an alternative for conventional source of electrical energy to feed a resistive load. A simple and cost-effective control technique is proposed to track the operating point at which maximum power of wind turbine generator system Hittite is obtained under changing environmental conditions of the city of Kufa. The control system requires GTOs as (rectifier /inverter), also known as interactive UPS. A software simulation model and the prediction of the proposed control system performance is developed in MATLAB/ SIMULINK. The results yielded by calculations, simulations and laboratory experiments are used to build the prototype machine (WES-SCIG) and test its performance by using a feeding array of low-power lamps.