Abstract
Resonance problems have become a major hurdle in the large-scale grid integration of renewable energy. It is important to be able to predict the amplitude of resonance-induced distortions for the protection and control design of power electronic converters. We recently presented an impedance-based approach for the prediction of resonance amplitude. It was shown that the impedance response of a converter starts changing with the amplitude of resonance; this blocks the amplitude growth beyond a certain point where the converter forms a limit cycle mode of sustained oscillations. The large-signal impedance of a converter captures the change in its impedance response with the resonance amplitude, and it can be used to predict the resonance amplitude under different operation conditions. This paper presents large-signal sequence impedance modeling for three-phase voltage source converters (VSC) with dq-current control and PLL. Modeling challenges encountered in the absence of the small-signal approximation are addressed by a) leveraging the dominating influence of hard nonlinearities such as pulse-width modulation saturation and limiters over soft nonlinearities in shaping the converter large-signal behavior and b) modeling the large-signal gain of hard nonlinearities using appropriate describing functions. Developed large-signal impedance models are validated using numerical simulations. Measurements of the large-signal impedance responses of a commercial 1-MW VSC-based inverter are also presented to experimentally demonstrate the effects of the injected perturbation amplitude on impedance response as predicted by the developed model.
Original language | American English |
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Pages | 4033-4038 |
Number of pages | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 26 Dec 2018 |
Event | 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2018 - Washington, United States Duration: 20 Oct 2018 → 23 Oct 2018 |
Conference
Conference | 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2018 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Washington |
Period | 20/10/18 → 23/10/18 |
Bibliographical note
See NREL/CP-5D00-71550 for preprintNREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5D00-73465
Keywords
- grid-connected inverters
- impedance modeling
- resonance
- stability