Control of Gate Valve of Micro Hydro Power Plant Using Fuzzy Logic Control Technique

Abstract

Micro-hydro power is one of the most important renewable energy in the world. However, micro-hydro electrical generating units are usually isolated from the grid network; thus, they require control to maintain constant frequency, scheduled power and voltage for any working conditions. The proposed fuzzy logic controller provides a good performance characteristic to the non-linear changing parameters of the system. Further, the designed controller maintains a smooth on/off control of gate valve positions of hydro power plant depending on the load demand. The proposed system is modeled and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink environment.