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Inertia Emulation in Power Converters with Communication Delays

Authors

LAI, NGOC BAO, Tarraso A. , BALTAS, NICHOLAS-GREGORY, Marin L. , RODRÍGUEZ CORTÉS, PEDRO

External publication

No

Means

ECCE - IEEE Energy Convers. Congr. Expo.

Scope

Capítulo de un Libro

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

Publication date

01/01/2020

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-85097152175

Abstract

Emulating inertia using power converter has been an effective way to provide additional inertia to power electronic dominated power systems. Currently, the control algorithms for emulating inertia have been proposed considering embedded implementation meaning that control algorithms are implemented in digital controller of power converter. However, it is not always feasible or cost-effective to upgrade control firmware of power converters. On the other hand, most of commercial power converter are equipped with at least one fieldbus interface, which can be employed for control purposes. This paper explores the possibility of emulating inertia by means of an external controller, which communicates with power converter via a communication link. Detailed analyses, especially regarding the influence of communication delays on the system stability and on performance indices such as RoCoF and frequency nadir, are given to provide insight into such an external implementation. The proposed implementation approach are also validated through simulations and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiments. © 2020 IEEE.

Keywords

Controllers; Cost effectiveness; Energy conversion; Firmware; Power converters; System stability; Communication delays; Digital controllers; Embedded implementation; External controller; Hardware in the loops; Implementation approach; Inertia emulation; Performance indices; Power control

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