Wind turbine system connected to ups onboard platform battery

Abstract

Wind Turbine System is an alternative energy generator where it converting energy from wind energy into electrical energy. However, the gas generator plays as main power generation to supply electrical energy to the electrical loads for oil and gas platform in Malaysia. This work describes the implementation of Wind Turbine System coupled to an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) at onboard-unmanned oil and gas platform. The existing system uses the Diesel Engine Generator (DEG) during black start it will charge the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) batteries, which provide 24V DC power to telecommunication equipment, instruments and other essential electrical systems. The DEG shall run until the fuel gas for Gas Engine Generator (GEG) is available. At normal operation, Gas Engine Generator (GEG) is used to power all 400V AC motors, charging the battery bank of the 24V DC UPS system and other loads. In case the GEG fails, the DEG should be commenced automatically to supply power to the loads. In case of DEG also fails, all 24V DC loads depending on UPS system which can be sustained in 2.46 hours otherwise the 24V DC UPS battery will drain, which resulted to total shutdown operation. In this project, Wind Turbine system is applied and connected to the UPS battery onboard platform to prolong the UPS battery to keep charging as much as possible and to ensure the UPS battery is reliable and available at all time. Installation and maintenance cost will be calculated and analyzed as well for the total proposed overall project and the performance of the proposed system will be simulated by System Advisor Model (SAM) software.