Parallel current-controlled synchronverters for voltage and frequency regulation in weak grids

Autor: Milan Prodanovic, Alberto Rodriguez-Cabero, Javier Roldan-Perez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
reference current
current saturates
Computer science
020209 energy
Automatic frequency control
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
voltage-source convertors
power system control
02 engineering and technology
parallel current-controlled synchronverters
voltage sag
frequency control
internal current controller
Control theory
virtual inertia
voltage sources
Voltage sag
parallel connection
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

frequency regulation
voltage regulation
Voltage source
control system improvements
020208 electrical & electronic engineering
voltage control
General Engineering
weak grids
voltage support
Grid
power grids
lcsh:TA1-2040
Control system
synchronous machines
Voltage regulation
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Software
electric current control
Voltage
Zdroj: The Journal of Engineering (2019)
DOI: 10.1049/joe.2018.8218
Popis: The emulation of synchronous machines is becoming an attractive solution to provide virtual inertia and voltage support to weak grids and microgrids, representing an alternative to conventional current-injection control strategies. However, synchronverters operate as voltage sources and this makes it difficult to limit the current when an event like voltage sag takes place. Here, a method to limit the output current of synchronverters in parallel connection is proposed. First of all, a fictitious reference current is generated, and its value is then followed by an internal current controller. A method to avoid the loss of synchronism when the current saturates is proposed and studied in detail. Also, the implementation of the controller is addressed carefully. All the control system improvements are tested on a prototype consisting of two 15 kVA synchronverters connected in parallel to a configurable weak grid.
Databáze: OpenAIRE