Design of Wind-solar and Pumped-storage Hybrid Power Supply System

Ruisheng Lil, Bingxin Wul, Xianwei Lil,Fengquan Zhoul,Yanbin Li2

1,

Dept. ofXJ GROUP CORPORATION, Xuchang,461000,China

2, Dept. of Electronics and Information, Zhongyuan University of Technology,

Zhengzhou,450007,China

Email:wubingxincc@163.com
fuel transportation, waste disposal and other issues,
construction cycle is short, operation management is
convenient.

Abstract-To overcome the inherent defects in wind-solar

hybrid

system:

power

generation

and

electricity

load's

imbalance because of uncertainty of resources. this article

aiming at XJ Group's project design of wind-solar hybrid
power supply system, by way of pumped-storage to replace the

II

battery of wind-solar hybrid power supply system, this method

THE MODEL OF WIND-SOLAR AND PUMPED-STORAGE

HYBRID POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

can effectively overcome above problems. Wind-solar and

pumped-storage hybrid power supply system can reasonable
configuration

system

capacity

according

to

the

user's

electricity load and resource condition, can ensure system

reliability of power supply and reduce the cost of power
generation system. Wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid
power supply system greatly suited for plain and the of
southern China region with relatively adequate wind energy
and solar energy, establish the power system in this region will
obtain a very good economic benefits and social effects of
energy conservation.

Fig.! Schematic diagram of wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid power

Keywords-wind-solar hybrid; pumped-storage; intelligent

supply

electric grid; photovoltaic cell

Wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid power supply

system contains PV generation, wind power generation,
pumping and hydropower and other subsystems. According
to the solar energy distribution characteristics of site area, in
the area both light radiation and radiation intensity is larger
during the day, it is except morning and night, the periods of
light during the day are more evenly distributed, daytime
distribution regularity is similar. Then from PV generation
material's photoelectric effect analysis, currently, effective
power generation time bears a closer relationship with the
sensitivity of optical materials and no significant relationship
with capacity. Therefore, it could find the corresponding
starting and ending point for power generation according to
different light intensity distribution during the day
approximate, the period between the two points is the time of
photovoltaic materials can be sensitive to the light, but also
is the effective work time of photocell in the daytime. The
effective period of wind power generation is also effected by
the local natural conditions, specific embodied in the each
period's wind size and continued stability during the daytime,
could find the corresponding starting and ending point for
power generation according to similar approaches, then
determine the effective working days of wind turbine
generator. Furthermore pumping systems affected by the
impact of water source and available water supply. Water
power of this system can constitute a self-circulation system

INTRODUCTION

The exploitation of wind energy and solar energy accord

with a country developing new energy development trend,
has a certain trend of the times and the economic value. But
both wind power and photoelectric system has a common
defect, it is power generation and electricity load's
imbalance because of uncertainty of resources. Both wind
power and photoelectric system must through battery energy
storage to stabilize power supply, however, the amount of
generated energy a day greatly influenced by the weather,
this can result in the system battery is in a long period of
power loss state, which is also the main reason of causing
battery's service life reduce. If the objective conditions
permit, the method of using pumped-storage to replace the
battery of wind-solar hybrid power supply system can
effectively overcome above problems. This energy
development mode has combined the tradition develop of
hydropower, solar energy and wind energy, using the
differences of three kinds energy in the space-time
distribution to realize the complementary development. The
mode not only applies to remote areas where network
coverage is difficult, but also conducive to ecological
environment protect in energy development. Wind-solar and
pumped-storage hybrid power supply is a kind of clean and
renewable energy, do not pollute the environment, there is no

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through pumping unit, external water mainly used as

supplement water source, the system demand for water is
lower.
Wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid power supply
system is composed by wind-solar generation system and
pumped-storage system, permanent magnet synchronous
generator under the action of the wind, after the rectifier
control in PWM converter, sent the electricity produced to
the DC bus system. At the same time, in the photovoltaic cell
panels and the joint action of Boost Rectifier, DC electrical
is also transported to the DC bus system. Till then, the
electricity we get is DC. This part of the electricity used for
two parts, one part directly supply power to ZhengZhou
financial college power system under the action of
grid-connected inverter, the other part power stored through
the inverter and pumped-storage system, put this part of the
electrical power into the power grid when the power load is
lager to reduce the load of power grid.
III
A.

SPOTLIGHT TRACKING

B.

1)

PV array efficiency171

PV array efficiency171 is the ratio of PV array's actual

DC power output and nominal power when solar radiation
intensity is l OOOW/m2.The loss of PV array in the energy
conversion process including: matching component loss,
surface dust occluded loss, non-usable solar radiation loss,
temperature effect, maximum power point tracking accuracy,
DC circuit losses and so on, take efficiency of 85%
calculation.
2)

PV POWER METHOD

Inverter efficiency172

Inverter efficiency 172 is the ratio of inverter's AC

power and DC input power, take inverter efficiency of 95%
calculation.

In the photovoltaic power system, this paper adopts the

method of spotlight tracking to generate. Spotlight tracking
PV module is the core of the system components, mainly for
sun collection, aggregation and transformation, mainly
constituted by the primary and secondary light-gathering
convergent component parts, solar receiver, radiator, and
mechanical components, shown as fig.2. Primary
light-gathering components is mainly complete optical first
gathering, system's condensation multiple is accord with the
light-gathering components; structural framework is the
installation vector of all components, secondary
light-gathering components complete further optical
gathering. Solar receiver is solar cells through specific
encapsulate, it can complete PV transformation, while the
receiver have certain protection design, avoid battery
damage affect whole module's power output, below of the
solar receiver connect with radiator. The spotlight tracking
photovoltaic power system could make the best use of solar
energy, reduce PV power system's material and save cost.
The materials of spotlight tracking PV power demonstration
system is gallium arsenide,it is the best selection of solar
panels materials on the market, in line with the application of
low carbon materials in Copenhagen.

3)

System overall efficiency

17lolal

171

172

IV

173

17

total

85% X 95% X 95%

77%

PUMPED-STORAGE SYSTEM

Pumped-storage power station complement with

wind-solar, their respective characteristic determines the
complementary operation can get more benefit, using solar
energy or wind power generation, without battery and direct
drive pumps executing variable interval pumped-storage,
then use the stored water to achieve a stable supply of
electricity. This energy development mode has combined the
tradition develop of hydropower, solar energy and wind
energy, using the differences of three kinds energy in the
space-time distribution to realize the complementary
development. The mode not only applies to remote areas
where network coverage is difficult, but also conducive to
ecological environment protect in energy development.
Pumped-storage system has superior performance in the
voltage of stable system, so energy storage part's design of
the power system adopts pumped storage, instead of battery
energy storage.
In all sorts of energy in the grid, hydropower has good
peak load regulation performance, can improve the power
status of thermal power units in power grid, Reducing
harmful gases (C02, etc.) emissions, not only improve the
quality of electric power grid, but also improve local
environment. At the same time can make use of valley
electricity (residual electricity) pumping, power generation
during peak hours, can not only peak shaving and valley
filling, but also can frequency modulation and accident
standby, has the functions of energy storage conversion and
improve the optimization in the power system.

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efficiency calculation

Grid-connected PV power system's overall efficiency

is component with PV array efficiency, inverter efficiency
and AC grid-connected efficiency.

Spotlight tracking system structure diagram

cCievc 4===r

PV system

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Fig.2 Schematic diagram of focusing system

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It can be calculated from the formula, when do not

taking into account the loss of transformer, the capacity of

HARDWARE CIRCUIT DESIGN

Rectifier circuit design

A.

.
.
S
translormer
IS reqUlred as
"

Rectifier circuit using single-phase full-controlled

bridge rectifier circuit, shown as fig.3, thyristorVTl and VT4
composed a pair of bridge-arm, VT2 and VT3 composed
another arm of the bridge. In the positive half-cycle of U2,
that is a-point potential higher than b-point potential, if none
of the four thyristor conduction, the load current is zero, then
the DC bus voltage of input is also zero, VTl and VT4 series
withstand voltage U2. If the leakage resistance of VTl and
VT4 equal, then each of them bear half of the U2.

B.

1)

U2 xI2

Grid-connect inverter design

Inverter main circuit design

Grid system

:J

T '----t--l

iFg.4Grid-connect inverter design diagram

As the figure shown, inverter DC input is generally
the low-voltage DC-DC bus voltage obtained through the
BOOST boost Transformation, in general the amplitude of it
is about 400V and the voltage fluctuation range is not large.
In figure 4, in the grid system the inductance L between the
inverter and the grid is used for straining higher harmonic
current of grid circuit and balancing the voltage difference
between grid-connected inverter and fundamental power.
The design of inductance circuit is the key to the smooth
operation of whole grid-connected inverter control strategy.
The circuit's aberration rate and volume is smaller, its
centralized control is quite simple.

Fig.3single-phase full-controlled bridge rectifier circuit

The average rectified voltage can be calculated according
to the diagram:

d )=2.fl,,u,.I+c2osa=O9. U'l+c2osa
U=d .!.r.fl
,, usin'mt(mt
When

Ud

UdO

0.9U2

When

180

2)

(1)

Inverter control circuit and software process

The shift range of a are 180.

I Current-voltage detection I

Current average output to the DC bus system:

Grid voltage

= Ud = 2 .[iU2 .l+cosa = .9U2 .l+cosa (2)

I
O
d
R
1rR
2
R
2
In the selection of the transistor, the transformer
capacity, wire cross sectional area, and so on, need to
consider the heating problem, therefore consider the RMS
current. The RMS current flowing through thyristor is:
1
IVT= -

2"

zerocrossing detection
Grid voltage detection
Given power

Fault alarm

' U -sm2a+-r(.flU.)
"-a
R 'smmt d(mt)=v2dR 2"
"
--

iFg.SGrid-connected inverter controldiagram

(3)
Transformer secondary current RMS
output DC current RMS I:

Id=I,= -1

"

I2

is equal to

r(.flU,.smmt
)'d(mt) =-u,-sm2a+-"-a
R 2"
R
"
--

Grid-connected inverter control unit mainly through

external detection circuit and the corresponding software
algorithm to achieve the request. Through the controller to
collect and display grid electric current and voltage, using
PWM control algorithm to control inverter. In order to
achieve a friendly man-machine interface control, using
real-time communication method with the host computer,
facilitate users to real-time monitoring, where the control and
protection part of BOOST can separated from inverter part.
However, because DSP resource is rich, we can use the same

(4)

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DSP to deal with it. In this article, the core controller of

grid-inverter system is a new high-speed digital signal
processor TMS320F2812. Its dominant frequency is
150MHz, with 18k on-chip SRAM, 128k zero-wait RAM,
128k on-chip Flash memory, 16-channel 12bit A / D,
16-channel PWM and other functional. As TMS320F2812 is
rich in on-chip resource with 16-channel 12bit A / D, using
IS61LV51216 with ISSI512K word capacity, 3.3 V power
supply, low power, faster data access, can meet the need of
real-time data access, bring convenience to the system
design.
According to the selected mode DSP controller bootstrap
loading programs, jump to master program entrance, execute
related variables, control registers initialized setting and sine
table initialization, and so on. Then enable interrupts in need,
start the timer, loop fault detection and protection and wait
for the interruption. Mainly includes three parts: Periodic
interrupt timer subroutine, A / D sampling subroutine and
data processing algorithms and capture unit. The main
program flow chart was shown in Figure 6.

VI

CONCLUSION

This article aiming at the wind-solar power supply

system, using pumped-storage to replace the battery of
wind-solar hybrid power supply system, can effectively
overcome the inherent defects in wind-solar hybrid system.
Wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid power supply system
can reasonable configuration system capacity according to
the user's electricity load and resource condition, can ensure
system reliability of power supply and reduce the cost of
power generation system. This paper puts forward a few
advantage of wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid power
supply system: adopts spotlight tracking photovoitaic power
system, gives the system's rectifiers and grid-connected
inverter's structure design and software flowchart design.
Wind-solar and pumped-storage hybrid power supply system
reflects the trend of development of new energy, has a very
good market prospect.
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