An Incorporated Power and Data Synchronous Transmission Method for SRG Integrated Wind Power Generation Systems

Reliable communication places important roles in renewable generation for operating status monitoring, fault alarming, cooperative control, and so on. For existing power and data synchronous transmission strategies applied to switched reluctance generator (SRG) systems, the communication rate is limited by very low power switching frequencies. Hence, in this article, a new power and data synchronous transmission strategy is proposed and implemented in an SRG integrated wind generation system by incorporating power and data composite modulation method with signal injection method. For lower signal band, the data is modulated together with power by regulating the lower power switch of each phase in a fixed interval with given frequency, and for the higher signal band, the data in form of voltage ripple is injected into the bus by a coupling circuit. Therefore, specific voltage ripples with different given frequencies can be embedded into the power line for carrying signals, and the frequency band of signal bus can be well exploited. On signal receiver end, the voltage ripples are sampled and analyzed by fast Fourier transform method for demodulating the transmitted data. The feasibility of the proposed incorporated data transmission method is verified by experimental testing.