EP3453096A1

EP3453096A1 - Method for the compensation of currents to be fed in from a wind park

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Publication number: EP3453096A1
Application number: EP17721684.3A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Johannes BROMBACH
Original assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
Current assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
Priority date: 2016-05-06
Filing date: 2017-05-05
Publication date: 2019-03-13
Also published as: JP6748225B2; CN109155525B; BR112018072173A2; US20190067943A1; CA3021965C; DE102016108394A1; JP2019516338A; RU2696604C1; CA3021965A1; WO2017191308A1; US11095124B2; CN109155525A; KR20190002676A

Abstract

The invention relates to a wind park for feeding a total electric current into an electric supply network at a network connection point, wherein the wind park has at least one wind energy plant which is constructed as a compensation wind energy plant, and has an active compensation unit in order to generate a compensatory partial current having a modulated-on compensation component, wherein the compensation component is modulated on by the active compensation unit, and has at least one further wind energy plant which, as a compensation-free wind energy plant, is configured to generate a non-compensated partial current without modulated-on compensation component, wherein the compensatory partial current or the compensatory partial currents and the non-compensatory partial current or the non-compensatory partial currents are superimposed onto the total electric current to be fed in in a park network that connects the wind energy plants, and the compensatory partial current or the compensatory partial currents are generated in such a way that the total currents to be fed in at a reference point in the park network, in a section between park network and network connection point or in the electric supply network, influences a reference current that occurs or a reference voltage that occurs, in order to achieve a predefined current form for this reference current or a predefined voltage form for this reference voltage.

Description

Method for compensating feed-in currents of a wind farm

The present invention relates to a wind farm for feeding a total electric current at a grid connection point into a utility grid. Furthermore, the present invention relates to such a compensation wind energy plant and a method for feeding a total electric current by means of such a wind farm and a method for generating a current of a compensation wind turbine.

It is particularly known for wind farms to generate electrical alternating current for feeding into an electrical supply network in that several wind turbines, each with at least one inverter each generate a partial stream, which is superimposed to be fed to a total electric current and fed into the electrical supply network. Such wind turbines are also referred to as inverter-coupled generators

The substreams of the inverter-coupled generators are usually generated by means of modulation methods using a large number of inverters, in particular cascaded inverters.

A disadvantage of using such modulation methods is in particular that the individual partial flows can be heavily harmonic. In addition, this effect can be negatively amplified by the cascaded design of the inverters, in particular so that the total electrical current to be supplied by the wind farm no longer meets the requirements of the electrical supply network.

Hereinbelow, harmonics are essentially harmonic harmonics of a current, these can be determined by a number of known analytical methods.

The German Patent and Trademark Office has in the priority application for the present application the following state of the art research: WO 01/73518 A1; US 8,971, 066 B2; "Harmony Resonances in Wind Power Plants: Modeling, Analysis and Active Mitigation Methods" by FD Freijedo et al., IEEE Eindhoven Power Tech, 2015; "Harmony Challenges and Mitigation in Large Offshore Wind Power Plants" by Dong Energy Wind Power, Harmony Symposium, August 26, 2015; Grazia Todeschini et al., IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 201. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide at least one of the above addressed problems. In particular, a solution is to be proposed which can easily control and / or compensate for the harmonic content of the total current of a wind farm to be fed in.

According to the invention, a wind farm for feeding a total electrical current at a grid connection point into an electrical supply network according to claim 1 is proposed. The wind farm comprises at least one wind energy plant, which has an active compensation unit, and at least one further wind energy plant, which is designed as a wind turbine without compensation.

The at least one wind turbine with the active compensation unit is also referred to below as a compensation wind turbine and is designed to generate a compensating partial flow with a modulated compensation component, ie a partial flow to which a compensation component has been modulated by the active compensation unit. For this purpose, for example, an active filter can be used which modulates a compensation component on the current generated by the wind energy plant. Thus, in a first step, the compensation wind energy plant generates a conventional current to which a compensation component, which was generated by an active compensation unit, is modulated in a second step.

The at least one further wind energy plant, which is also referred to below as a compensatory wind turbine, has no active compensation unit in the sense of a compensation wind energy plant and is designed to generate a non-compensating substream without aufmoduliertem compensation proportion, so basically completely normal. The generation of such non-compensating partial current can be done, for example, by a frequency inverter. The frequency inverter can, for example, use a pulse-width modulation or a tolerance band method, but it does not carry out any additional modulation in the sense for the non-compensating partial current in that targeted harmonic components or compensation components are added to the latter generated electricity to be supplemented. In any case, there is no modulation by an active compensation unit.

Furthermore, the wind turbines of the wind farm, so both the compensation wind turbines and the wind turbines without compensation, connected to each other via a common parking network and feed via a common grid connection point in a supply network as a wind farm. The compensating and non-compensating substreams generated by the wind turbines thus overlap in the parking grid to form a common total electric current to be fed in. According to the invention, the compensation wind energy installation is designed to generate the compensating substream with a modulated compensation component so that a total current to be injected is generated when the compensating and non-compensating substreams, ie all substreams, are superimposed, forming the reference current occurring there at a reference point the reference current reaches a predetermined current form or a predetermined current. Depending on the application, it is proposed that instead of a reference current, a reference voltage is considered and the total current to be supplied is generated so that this reference voltage reaches a predetermined voltage form or a predetermined voltage. This is also achieved by superposition of the compensating and non-compensating substreams to the total current to be injected. The consideration of a reference voltage instead of a reference current is particularly proposed for a reference point which is arranged in the electrical supply network. Here, it depends less on the current form than on the voltage form, whereas viewing the reference point in the parking network, or in a section between the parking network and the grid connection point, the consideration of a reference current is preferred.

The following explanations regarding embodiments and effects in connection with a reference current apply mutatis mutandis to reference voltages.

Particularly advantageous here is the fact that a wind turbine of an existing wind farm can be retrofitted in a simple manner with an active filter, so as to increase the quality of the current to be fed in the entire wind farm. For this purpose, the reference point can lie in the parking network itself, between the parking network and the network connection point or in the supply network.

The wind farm preferably has a detection means for detecting harmonics of the reference current occurring at the reference point, and the active compensation unit is set up to generate the modulated compensation component as a function of the detected harmonics of the reference current occurring at the reference point such that the harmonics occurring at the reference point the reference current or the reference voltage can be compensated or at least reduced or minimized. The detection means is in particular adapted to detect the harmonics occurring at the reference point and to transmit these to the active compensation unit. This can be done both directly and indirectly and / or via cable or radio or the like. The detection means can also be designed both as a measuring means or as a measuring receiver. The active compensation unit preferably generates the modulated compensation component as a function of the detected harmonics so that the harmonics at the reference point are compensated or at least reduced or minimized. For example, the grid connection point can be selected as the reference point so that the compensation wind energy installation minimizes or at best completely eliminates the harmonics of the total current to be supplied at the grid connection point. The wind farm feeds then substantially without harmonics into the supply network. Particularly advantageous here is that one or a few wind turbines with an active compensation unit can almost eliminate the entire harmonics of a wind farm. Preferably, the wind farm has exactly one compensation wind energy plant or the wind farm has at least one subnet, which includes exactly one compensation wind energy plant.

The number of compensation wind turbines is thus adjusted according to the wind farm performance. In particular for the compensation of harmonics according to one of the preceding embodiments, a compensation wind energy installation is set up to compensate for the harmonics of a plurality of compensationless wind turbines, for example in a ratio greater than 1: 5, in particular especially larger 1:10. If the wind farm has more than 10 wind turbines, it is proposed to subdivide it into subnets, so that the wind farm according to the invention preferably has exactly one compensation wind turbine per subnet. Especially in the compensation of harmonics very few compensation wind turbines are needed.

According to the invention, a wind energy plant for generating electrical power for feeding into an electrical supply network according to claim 5 is also proposed. This is referred to above and below as compensation wind turbine. The compensation wind energy installation has an active compensation unit, in particular an active filter, in order to generate a compensating substream with a modulated compensation component, wherein the compensation component is modulated by the active compensation unit in order to achieve a desired current form of a reference current at a reference point . to create. The wind energy installation according to the invention is thus configured to act as a compensation installation of a wind farm described above and below according to at least one embodiment.

The compensation wind turbine is also designed as a conventional wind turbine, for example as a gearless wind turbine with synchronous generator and full converter, which generates a conventional partial flow. In addition, the compensation wind turbine has an active compensation unit that modulates a compensation component for this customary partial current. The modulation takes place by the active compensation unit. In this case, according to one embodiment, the customary partial current is modulated with a compensation component in such a way that a reference current reaches a specific nominal current form at a reference point. Preferably, a detection means for detecting occurring at the reference point harmonics of the reference current is provided and the active compensation unit is adapted to aufzumodulieren depending on the detected occurring at the reference point harmonics of the reference current or the reference voltage Kompensationsanteil so that the harmonics occurring at the reference point the reference current or the reference voltage can be compensated or at least reduced or minimized.

The active compensation unit of the compensation wind energy installation is thus set up by means of a detection means harmonics at a reference point capture. The detection means can also be part of the active compensation unit or the compensating wind energy installation.

In addition, the active compensation unit is preferably configured to modulate the harmonics of the compensation wind energy installation by means of a compensation component such that the harmonics of a reference current occurring at a reference point are compensated or minimized.

Preferably, the active compensation unit is arranged on a low-voltage side of the wind turbine.

The active compensation unit of the compensation wind energy plant is arranged, for example, as an active filter on the low-voltage side of the wind energy plant. Usually, the low-voltage side is located on the primary side of the wind turbine, which has a rated voltage of less than 1 kV. The wind energy plant is then connected via a transformer to the supply network or the parking network, which has, for example, a rated voltage of 10 kV or 20 kV. The wind turbine is thus connected via a transformer to the parking network and the active compensation unit is arranged on the primary side of the transformer.

The invention also proposes a method for feeding a total electrical current at a grid connection point into an electrical supply network by means of a wind farm. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of detecting a reference current dependent on the total current at a reference point, generating at least a first partial current of the total current by means of a first wind energy plant, the first wind energy plant being designed as a compensation wind energy plant and having an active compensation unit, modulating a compensation component the at least one first partial flow by means of the active compensation unit of the first wind turbine to compensate for or reduce harmonics of the reference current or the reference voltage, generating at least a second partial flow of the total flow by means of a second compensationless wind turbine, the second generated partial flow not by means of a Compensation portion of an active compensation unit is modulated on and thus a non-compensating substream is generated without aufmodulierten Kompensationsanteil, superimpose d at least one first compensating substream with the at least one second non-compensating substream at a superposition tion point to be fed to the grid connection point total electrical current.

In a first step, the harmonics of a reference current are thus detected at a reference point, this can be done using conventional measuring means, for example. If the grid connection point is selected as the reference point, the reference current corresponds to the total current to be supplied. If the reference point is outside the wind farm, the reference current is only partially dependent on the total current to be supplied. The reference current then includes a multiplicity of injected currents from different generators and at least part of the total current to be supplied.

In a second step, a partial current is then generated by means of the compensating wind energy system and subsequently modulated by the active compensation unit in such a way that the harmonics detected or occurring at the reference point are correspondingly compensated. For this purpose, a compensation component is modulated on the partial flow by means of the active compensation unit. In this case, it is taken into account that the current at the reference point from this partial flow is composed of a compensation component and of other partial currents which are not modulated for compensation. The compensation takes place in particular as a function of a previously calculated desired value and / or in such a way that the occurring harmonics are minimized, in particular eliminated.

The proposed method thus makes it possible in a simple manner to compensate for harmonics by means of fewer compensation wind energy installations, that is to say customary wind energy installations which have been equipped and / or retrofitted with an active filter. Optimally, only one wind turbine of a wind farm needs to be equipped with a compensation unit.

In a preferred embodiment, the method according to the invention is designed as a feedback control method and / or is optimized by means of a wind farm network analysis.

Preferably, a harmonic setpoint is specified for compensation or reduction of the harmonics, and the generation of the at least one first compensating substream with modulated compensation component takes place as a function of the setpoint harmonic value, in particular such that the harmonic component setpoint generator for generating a reference variable to specify the harmonics of the at least one compensating substream or to specify the total harmonics of the superimposed total current, especially for a location other than the reference point. By specifying harmonic setpoints, it is possible to modulate the superimposed total current almost arbitrarily. In this way, both a total current can be generated, which is almost free of harmonics, as well as a total current that has only certain harmonic damping, for example, in the supply network existing harmonics. Preferably, a control is used for this purpose in which the harmonic setpoint values are used as the control variable of the control in order to generate an arbitrary reference current at the reference point.

Preferably, a state observer is used for detecting the harmonics at the reference point, wherein the state observer detects the harmonics at the reference point minus the compensation achieved by the at least one first compensating substream as uncompensated harmonics and compensates the uncompensated ones for generating the at least one first compensating substream with modulated compensation fraction Harmonics are taken into account.

In this way, it can be achieved that the harmonics to be compensated are also well detected when the compensation is effective, that is to say when in the ideal case no harmonics occur at the reference point due to the compensation. In this case, however, the compensation should be continued, although at the reference point no harmonics are recognizable. The compensation then depends on the uncompensated harmonics, ie the harmonics at the reference point less the compensation achieved by the at least one first modulated compensation component. These uncompensated harmonics are preferably detected by a state observer. For the control thus a controller is used, which is designed as an observer or estimator.

Preferably, the reference point is the network connection point. This makes it possible for a wind farm using the method according to the invention to generate a total current to be fed in, which does not produce any harmonics has, or only minor harmonics. This is especially desirable for wind farms connected to a weak grid.

The reference point preferably lies outside the wind farm, the proposed method also comprising the steps of determining harmonic setpoint values as a function of the reference point of detected harmonics, controlling the active compensation unit as a function of the determined harmonic setpoint values to generate harmonics corresponding to the harmonic setpoint values and the at least one first partial flow to generate with a modulated compensation component so that the total current to be injected has corresponding harmonics.

As a reference point, for example, a node in the supply network is selected. This is particularly desirable when the method according to the invention is performed by a wind farm which is the largest feeder or feeder with respect to the reference point. If harmonics occur at the reference point, these can be converted and given as setpoint values to the compensating wind energy systems. The wind farm that has the compensation wind energy systems then generates certain harmonics at the grid connection point of the wind farm. The total current generated in this way is then fed into the supply network and superimposed there in such a way that at the reference point the harmonics, namely especially the voltage harmonics, are compensated and thus the supply network is stabilized.

Preferably, it is checked whether harmonics at the reference point exceed limit values, in particular for the 5th, 7th, 1 1st, 13th, 17th and / or 19th harmonic, and that optionally modulating the at least one modulated compensation proportion on the first partial flow only occurs when harmonics at the reference point have exceeded at least one threshold.

According to this embodiment, it is thus assumed that a harmonic or the process is performed only when a certain limit has been exceeded. Only when the limit values are exceeded is the compensation then activated and a compensation component modulated on. The active compensation unit is thus temporarily inactive. Such a procedure is particularly well suited to prevent a swing in the compensation wind turbine, the wind farm and / or the supply network. In a particularly preferred embodiment, it is checked whether the 5th, 7th, 1st, 13th, 17th and / or 19th harmonic exceed a limit value. In order to improve the quality at the reference point, one or more test criteria are thus selected. The 5th, 7th, 1 1st, 13th, 17th and / or 19th harmonic are particularly well suited, as they are often generated by inverters of higher order and the number of these inverters steadily increases with the increase in decentralized generators and will continue to rise. The method is thus particularly well suited for inverter-dominated supply networks.

Preferably, checking for harmonics at the reference point involves divergence analysis, and upon detection of divergence, the determined target values are withheld as long as the divergence persists. It is therefore checked whether values diverge and indicate a swinging up.

It is proposed that when the network, in particular the harmonics, oscillates, no more desired values are transmitted to the active compensation units or the modulation by the active filters is set. The method for compensating for harmonics is thus stopped when the supply network threatens to become unstable. Thus, it is possible to use the method according to the invention also in small decentralized supply networks, which tend to swing up. Preferably, the total electrical power is generated by means of a wind farm according to at least one embodiment described above and / or at least one modulated substream is generated by means of a wind turbine according to at least one wind turbine embodiment described above.

The invention also proposes a method for generating at least one compensation component by means of an active compensation unit of a wind turbine according to the invention, in particular according to at least one wind turbine embodiment described above, wherein the partial current modulated by the active compensation unit is provided on a low-voltage side of the wind turbine. The present invention will now be explained in more detail by way of example with reference to exemplary embodiments with reference to the accompanying figures. 1a shows a schematic view of a wind turbine,

1 b schematically shows a conventional wind farm,

2 shows an embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention,

3a shows a preferred embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention, wherein the reference point is the grid connection point,

3b shows a schematic representation of the harmonics of a preferred embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention, wherein the reference point is the grid connection point,

FIG. 4a shows a particularly preferred embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention, the reference point being in the supply network, FIG.

4b shows a schematic representation of the harmonics of a preferred embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention wherein the reference point lies in the supply network,

Fig. 5 shows a procedure of a method according to the invention and

6 shows a method sequence of a further method according to the invention in a preferred embodiment

1 a shows a wind energy plant 100 for generating electrical power for feeding into an electrical supply network and / or in a parking network of a wind farm comprising the wind energy plant 100. The wind energy plant 100 has a tower 102 and a pod 104. On the nacelle 104, an aerodynamic rotor 106 with three rotor blades 108 and a spinner 1 10 is arranged. The rotor 106 is set in rotation by the wind in rotation and thereby drives a generator in the nacelle 104 at.

1 b shows a conventional wind farm 150 with, by way of example, three wind turbines 100 for generating electrical power by means of a generator 1 12, wherein the wind turbines 100 can be the same or different. The three wind turbines 100 are thus representative of virtually any number of wind turbines 100 of a wind farm 150. The wind turbines 100 provide their power, namely in particular the generated power, a parking grid 152 each as a partial flow. In this case, the respective generated partial flows or powers of the individual wind energy plant 100 are added up in the parking network 152 and provided to a transformer 154, which is also referred to as a parking transformer 154. The park transformer 154 is arranged and intended to transform the voltage of the parking network 152 high and thus to provide the electrical power to a supply network, in particular via a connecting line 156, which connects the wind farm 156 at a network connection point 158 with an electrical supply network 160. The grid connection point 158 is also commonly referred to as the feed point or PCC and is the point where the wind farm 150 is connected to the electrical utility grid and feeds its electrical power. Optionally, the grid connection point 158 may include another transformer. FIG. 1 b is only a simplified illustration of a conventional wind farm 150, which does not show any control, for example, although of course a control is present. Also, for example, the parking network 152 may be designed differently, for example, by a transformer at the output of each wind turbine 100 is present or multiple wind turbines 100 form a subnet, the plurality of the parking network 152 forms.

2 shows an embodiment of a wind farm 250 according to the invention for feeding a total electrical current C ^ 'at a grid connection point 258 into an electrical supply network 260. The wind farm 250 has a plurality of wind energy plants 200a, 200b, each wind energy plant each having a partial flow C _W inda , C _W indb, Cwindc of the total electric current nj 'generated. At least one wind turbine 200a of the wind farm 250 has an active compensation unit 270 and is designed as a compensation wind turbine 200a to generate a compensating sub-stream with a modulated compensation component C _W inda, wherein the compensation component is modulated by the active compensation unit 270. In addition, the wind farm 250 according to the invention has at least one further wind energy plant 200b, which is set up as a compensationless wind turbine 200b to generate a non-compensating substream without modulated compensation component Cwindb, which is unmodulated, ie without modulated, with respect to a modulation by an active compensation unit Compensation share is. As a non-compensating partial flow, therefore, basically only one sinusoidal current is generated, which, however, may, unintentionally, deviate from an ideal sinusoidal current. The compensationless wind turbines 200b thus have no active compensation unit. The compensating substream with a modulated compensation component C _Win da and the non-compensating partial current without modulated compensation component C _W indb are superimposed in the parking network 252 to form a total electrical current Cinj to be injected. This is fed in the ideal case free of losses at the grid connection point 258 in the electrical supply network 260 as a total electrical current C _in j '. In addition, the wind farm usually has a section 256, for example a connection line between parking network 252 and grid connection point 258, which can lead to losses. The person skilled in the art knows how to take such sections into account by adapting, for example, the currents and / or voltages accordingly.

The compensating partial current with modulated compensation component C _W inda is correspondingly generated such that the total current Cinj 'to be injected influences a reference current in order to achieve a predetermined current form Cs _e t for this reference current. The reference current may occur at a reference point 270a, 270b, 270c in the parking network 252, in a section 256 between the parking network and the network connection point or in the electrical supply network 260. The compensating partial current with modulated compensation component C _W inda is thus generated such that a reference current occurring at a reference point 270a, 270b and / or 270c corresponds to a desired current, in particular corresponds in its current form to a desired current C _Ac t.

The wind farm 250 according to the invention may also have further wind power plants 200c, which are designed, for example, as a wind turbine without compensation.

In addition, in a preferred embodiment, the wind energy plant 200a, 200b, 200c of the wind farm 250 according to the invention designed as a gearless wind turbine and have synchronous generator with full converter on.

Fig. 3a shows a preferred embodiment 350 of a wind farm according to the invention as shown in FIG. The wind farm 350 has at least one compensation wind energy installation 300a with an active compensation unit 370 and further windless compensation systems 300b, 300c. Each of the wind turbines 300a, 300b, 300c generates a partial flow C _Win da, C _Win db, C _Win dc, wherein the compensation component of the compensating wind energy installation C _W inda to be modulated is generated by the active compensation unit 370, which is preferably designed as an active filter. The compensating and non-compensating partial currents thus generated are superimposed in the three-phase parking network 352 to form a total current Cinj 'to be fed in. The total current Cinj- to be injected is transmitted via the wind farm transformer. tor 354 and the connecting line 356 at the network connection point 358 in the electrical supply network 360 is fed.

By the detection means 370d, the occurring reference current C _{Act is} detected at the network connection point 358 and transferred to the active compensation unit 370. The active compensation unit 370 modulates the compensation component in such a way that the compensating component current C _W minimizes, in particular compensates, the harmonic of the reference current C _Ac t. In the steady state thus corresponds to the total current Cinj- feed the reference current C _Ac t, which has substantially no harmonics. The wind farm 350 thus feeds into the supply network without harmonics.

3b shows a schematic representation of the harmonics 380 of a preferred embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention according to FIG. 3a. For the sake of simplicity, only the first three harmonics are shown schematically in pu, namely in each case the amplitude of the respective frequency component. Each wind energy plant of the wind farm according to the invention generates a partial flow having harmonics 382a, 382b, 382c. These add up in the parking network to a total current to be fed, which also has harmonics 384. The active compensation unit of a wind power plant according to the invention modulates the compensation component so that, when the non-compensating substreams comprising the harmonics 388b, 388c and the compensating substreams comprising the harmonics 388a are superimposed, the total current to be injected is generated Harmonics 390 has. The total current to be supplied by the wind farm according to the invention thus has substantially no harmonics 390 at the grid connection point. FIG. 4 a shows a particularly preferred embodiment 450 of a wind farm according to the invention, similar to that shown in FIG. 2. The wind farm 450 has at least one compensation wind energy plant 400a with an active compensation unit 470 and further compensationless wind energy plants 400b, 400c. Each of the wind turbines 400a, 400b, 400c respectively generates a partial stream C _W inda, C _W indb, C _W INDC, wherein the aufzumodulierende compensation proportion of the compensation wind turbine C _W inda generated by the active compensation unit 470, which is preferably embodied as an active filter. The compensating and non-compensating partial currents thus generated are superimposed in the three-phase parking network 452 to form a total current Cinj 'to be injected. The total current Cinj- to be injected is transmitted via the wind farm transformer. tor 454 and the connecting line 456 at the grid connection point 458 via a network transformer in the electrical supply network 460 fed.

The detection means 470c detects the occurring reference voltage C _Act or its harmonics at one point in the supply network. From the harmonics thus detected, compensation harmonics are determined and target values Cs _e t are determined, which are transferred to the active compensation unit 470. The active compensation unit 470 modulates the compensation proportion to so that the compensating part of stream C _W minimizes the harmonic of the reference voltage C _Ac t in _there, in particular compensated. In the steady state, the reference voltage C _Ac t thus corresponds to a desired voltage form. The wind farm 450 thus supplies specifically with some harmonics in the supply network so that the harmonics of the reference voltage in the supply network are minimized. Thus, the harmonics of the supply system voltage are minimized.

4b shows a schematic representation of the harmonics 480 of a preferred embodiment of a wind farm according to the invention according to FIG. 4a. To simplify the illustration, only the amplitudes of the respective frequency component of the first three harmonics are shown schematically in p.u. displayed. Each wind turbine of the wind farm according to the invention generates a partial flow having harmonics 482a, 482b, 482c. These add up in the parking network to a total current to be fed, which also has harmonics 484. The active compensation unit of a wind turbine according to the invention modulates the compensation component so that, when the non-compensating substreams comprising the harmonics 488b, 488c are superimposed, and the compensating substreams comprising the harmonics 488a, a total current to be injected is generated which specifically produces harmonics 390 has. The total current to be supplied by the proposed wind farm thus has some harmonics 390 at the grid connection point, the multiplicity of remaining harmonics being minimized.

5 shows a schematic process sequence 500 of a method according to the invention for feeding a total electrical current at a grid connection point into an electrical supply network by means of a wind farm according to the invention.

In a first step 510, the harmonics of a reference current at a reference point, in particular at the grid connection point, are detected, for example by digital means for detecting harmonics and currents. The harmonics detected in this way are transferred to the active compensation units or the compensation wind energy systems, which is indicated by the line 515, and evaluated if necessary.

The active compensation units, which are preferably set up on the low-voltage side of the compensation wind energy installation, in a next step 520 modulate the compensation components in such a way that the harmonics detected at the reference point are at least reduced or compensated. This can also be done for example by a target value specification.

As a result of the constantly changing prevailing wind conditions and supply network fluctuations, the method according to the invention is a feedback control method in which the reference current is tracked to a desired current. This is indicated in Fig. 5 by the dashed line 531.

6 shows a schematic process sequence 600 of a further method according to the invention for feeding a total electrical current at a grid connection point into an electrical supply network by means of a method according to the invention.

In a first step 610, the harmonics of a reference voltage are detected at a reference point in the supply network, for example by digital means for detecting harmonics and voltages. Subsequently, compensation harmonics are calculated in a further step 620 as a function of the harmonics detected at the reference point. Compensation harmonics are in particular those harmonics which at least partially generate an attenuation of the total harmonics in superimpositions with other harmonics. The phase position of these harmonics are ideally phase-shifted by 180 ° to the harmonics to be compensated.

In a next step 630, harmonic setpoint values are determined from the calculated compensation harmonics for at least one active compensation unit of a wind energy plant of the wind farm in order to generate the determined compensation harmonics by means of the active compensation unit. The harmonic setpoint values are transferred in a further step 640 to the at least one active compensation unit.

In a further step 650, the at least one active compensation unit subsequently generates a compensation component to be modulated by means of which the upper oscillations at the reference point in the supply network are at least partially compensated. The wind farm thus feeds specifically with certain harmonics depending on a target specification in the supply network at the grid connection point.

In a preferred embodiment, the detection of harmonics 610 includes checking 612 whether there is harmonic, in particular, whether predetermined limits have been exceeded. In particular, the 5th, 7th, 1st, 13th, 17th and / or 19th harmonics are observed here. If such harmonics are detected, it is then optionally possible to generate the compensation components for compensating for these harmonics. Specific harmonics in the supply network are thus monitored in a targeted manner and compensated by means of a wind farm according to the invention. For this purpose, the wind farm in particular at the grid connection point specifically modulated harmonics.

In addition, testing for harmonics includes a divergence analysis of the harmonics. If the method converges to reduce the harmonics while performing the method, the method is continued Y. If, however, a divergence N of the harmonics detected, ie a swinging of the supply network in the range of harmonics, the calculated target values are retained. The generation of the compensation components is thus frozen in their last target value, which is indicated by the line F.

The divergence of the harmonics may then either continue to be monitored and continue upon detection of converging decaying harmonics, or the process is suspended by means of a deadband for a period of time, and the process then begins again automatically after the dead time has elapsed.

Due to the ever-changing prevailing wind conditions and supply network fluctuations, the method according to the invention is a feedback control method in which the reference current is tracked to a desired current. This is indicated in Fig. 6 by the dashed line 691.

Claims

Claims:

A wind farm for feeding a total electric current at a grid connection point into an electrical supply network, the wind farm having at least: a wind energy installation which is designed as a compensation wind energy installation and having an active compensation unit for generating a compensating substream having a modulated compensation component, the compensation component is modulated by the active compensation unit, and has at least one additional wind turbine, which is configured as a compensationless wind turbine to generate a non-compensating substream without modulated compensation component, wherein - the compensating substream and the compensating substream or the non - compensating substreams are superimposed to the total electrical current to be fed in a parking network connecting the wind turbines, and - the compensating substream resp The compensating substreams are generated so that the total current to be injected at a reference point

- in the park net,

- in a section between the parking network and the network connection point or

- in the electrical supply network influences an occurring reference current or an occurring reference voltage in order to achieve a predetermined current form for this reference current or a predetermined voltage form for this reference voltage.

Wind farm according to claim 1, characterized by a detection means for detecting occurring at the reference point harmonics of the reference current or the reference voltage, wherein the active compensation unit is adapted to generate depending on the detected, occurring at the reference point harmonics the modulated compensation component so that the harmonics occurring at the reference point are compensated or at least reduced or minimized.

Wind farm according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the wind farm has exactly one compensation wind energy plant or the wind farm has at least one subnet which includes exactly one compensation wind turbine.

A wind turbine for generating electrical power for feeding into an electrical supply network, wherein the wind turbine has an active compensation unit to generate a compensating substream with a modulated compensation component, wherein the compensation component is modulated by the active compensation unit to a desired current form of a reference current or a To achieve target voltage form of a reference voltage at the reference point, wherein the wind turbine is adapted to act as a compensation wind turbine of a wind farm according to one of claims 1 to 3.

Wind energy plant according to claim 4, characterized in that a detection means for detecting the harmonics occurring at the reference point of the reference current or the reference voltage is provided, and the active compensation unit is set up in response to the detected harmonics occurring at the reference point to modulate the compensation component in such a way that the harmonics occurring at the reference point are compensated or at least reduced or minimized.

Wind energy plant according to one of claims 4 or 5, characterized in that the active compensation unit is arranged on a low-voltage side of the wind turbine.

Method for feeding a total electrical current at a grid connection point into an electrical supply network by means of a wind farm, comprising the steps:

Detecting a reference current dependent on the total current or a reference current dependent on the total current at a reference point,

Generating at least a first partial flow of the total flow by means of a first wind energy plant, the first wind energy plant being designed as a compensation wind energy plant and having an active compensation unit,

Modulating a compensation component onto the at least one first partial current by means of the active compensation unit of the first wind turbine so as to compensate or reduce harmonics of the reference current or the reference voltage,

Generating at least a second partial flow of the total flow by means of a second compensationless wind turbine, wherein the second generated partial flow is not modulated by means of a compensation component of an active compensation unit and thus a non-compensating partial flow without modulated compensation component is generated,

Overlaying the at least one first compensating substream with the at least one second non-compensating substream at a superposition tion point to be fed to the grid connection point total electrical current.

A method according to claim 7, characterized in that for a compensation or reduction of the harmonics, a harmonic setpoint is specified and generating the at least one first compensating substream with modulated Kompensationsanteil depending on the harmonic setpoint, in particular so that the harmonic setpoint for generating a reference variable forms to specify the harmonics of the at least one compensating substream or to specify the total harmonics of the superimposed total current, especially for a location other than the reference point.

A method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that for detecting the harmonics at the reference point, a state observer is used, the state observer detects the harmonics at the reference point less the compensation achieved by the at least one first compensating partial current as uncompensated harmonics and for generating the at least one first compensating substream with modulated compensation component, the uncompensated harmonics are taken into account.

Method for feeding a total electric current according to one of claims 7 to 9, characterized in that the reference point is the network connection point.

Method for feeding in a total electric current according to one of Claims 7 to 9, characterized in that the reference point lies outside the wind farm and in particular a reference voltage is detected, furthermore comprising the steps:

Determination of harmonic setpoints as a function of the reference point of detected harmonics, Controlling the active compensation unit as a function of the determined harmonic setpoint values in order to generate harmonics in accordance with the harmonic setpoint values and to generate the at least one first partial flow with a modulated compensation component such that the total current to be injected has corresponding harmonics.

Method for feeding a total electrical current according to one of claims 7 to 1 1, characterized in that it is checked whether harmonics at the reference point exceed limits, in particular for the 5th, 7th, 1 1, 13, 17 and / or 19 harmonic, and that optionally modulating the at least one modulated compensation component on the first partial flow only occurs when harmonics at the reference point have exceeded at least one threshold.

A method for feeding a total electric current according to any one of claims 7 to 12, characterized in that the testing for harmonics at the reference point comprises a divergence analysis and upon detection of a divergence, the determined target values are retained as long as the divergence persists.

Method for feeding in a total electric current according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the total electrical current is generated by means of a wind farm according to one of claims 1 to 3 and / or at least one compensating substream with a modulated compensation component by means of a wind turbine according to one of claims 4 until 6 is generated.

Method for generating at least one modulated compensation component of a partial current by means of an active compensation unit of a wind energy plant according to one of Claims 4 to 6, characterized in that the at least one compensation component to be modulated by means of the active compensation unit is provided on a low-voltage side of the wind turbine.