Synchronverters with a Virtual Oscillator to Attenuate Power Oscillations

  • Hang YIN
  • , Shimin WANG
  • , Ziqi ZHOU*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A virtual oscillator (VO) based frequency-locked loop (FLL) is proposed to estimate the grid frequency ωg and added to the control algorithm of a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) in order to better dampen oscillations in a power system comprising VSMs. The VO present in the virtual capacitor is used to estimate the ripple frequency. Similarly, a very simple but effective approximation is proposed, which features first-order dynamics instead of second-order in the conventional FLL. The change of VSM is to add a VO to offer a local friction-damping torque. The effect of the damping torque on the rotor of a VSM is similar to the presence of local friction damping on the same axis. Assumed that the damping torque is proportional to the frequency difference of ω - ωg. Derive the damping torque Tvo based on the VO from the existing state variables of the fourth-order VSM model and its terminal voltages. Simulations and experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed method in power oscillations damping.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1303-1310
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Volume12
Issue number2
Early online date6 Nov 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2024
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); in part by the Israeli Ministry of Infrastructure, Energy and Water, under Grant 219-11-128; and in part by the Israel Science Foundation under Grant 2802/21.

Keywords

  • Low-frequency oscillation (LFO)
  • synchronverter
  • virtual oscillator (VO)
  • virtual synchronous machine (VSM)

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