Real power and frequency control of a small isolated power system

This paper describes the dynamic analysis of a small isolated power system comprising a wind turbine generator and a diesel generator. The analysis is carried out in time domain considering simplified models of the system components by taking into account the wind turbine pitch controller and the diesel engine speed governor. Wind disturbance model consisting components of gusting of wind, rapid ramp changes and random noise. The wind generator is always operated with its rated power and the additional power required by the load is supplied by the diesel generator. For better dynamic performances of wind-diesel system under wind and load disturbance conditions, two control schemes are used. In the first case, a proportional-integral (P-I) controller and in the second case a proportional-integral-derivative (P-I-D) controller are used. Gain parameters of these controllers are optimized using genetic algorithm (GA) and Particle swarm optimization (PSO) considering two different objective functions and the results are compared. The sensitivity analysis of the wind diesel system is carried out for parameter uncertainties and the stability of the system is analyzed using D-stability criterion. Analysis is also carried out to examine the effect of power injection to a 69 bus radial distribution network by wind-diesel isolated system. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.