Wind power generation has become one of the most important energy sources. Currently, due to the advances achieved in power electronics and vertical-axis small wind-turbines, the urban integration of wind-energy has increased considerably. In this work, three three-phase rectifiers are proposed to inject the energy from a permanent magnet synchronous generator to a microgrid DC-bus. By means of sliding mode control these architectures are modeled as a three-phase Loss Free Resistor allowing the power factor correction in each phase and obtaining a modular and redundant implementation.
However, due to the cost of the microgrids implementation, a boost inverter is proposed to obtain the most basic configuration for grid-connection. Using the boost inverter a sinusoidal output waveform can be obtained for input voltages lower than mains voltage. Finally, the DC voltage and the DC-link capacitor can be adjusted in order to optimize the global efficiency.Wind power generation has become one of the most important energy sources. Currently, due to the advances achieved in power electronics and vertical-axis small wind-turbines, the urban integration of wind-energy has increased considerably. In this work, three three-phase rectifiers are proposed to inject the energy from a permanent magnet synchronous generator to a microgrid DC-bus. By means of sliding mode control these architectures are modeled as a three-phase Loss Free Resistor allowing the power factor correction in each phase and obtaining a modular and redundant implementation.
However, due to the cost of the microgrids implementation, a boost inverter is proposed to obtain the most basic configuration for grid-connection. Using the boost inverter a sinusoidal output waveform can be obtained for input voltages lower than mains voltage. Finally, the DC voltage and the DC-link capacitor can be adjusted in order to optimize the global efficiency
