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A low quiescent current low-dropout regulator (LDO) applied in energy harvest system is presented in this paper. With super-source follower, the LDO has only one pole within loop unity gain bandwidth. And current buffer compensation is utilized to maintain the phase margin under the full range of load current. In order to decrease the power dissipation on the resistors of voltage divider, the resistors...
This paper addresses the stability challenges that exist in a bidirectional grid connected electric vehicle (EV) charger. The EV charger under consideration comprises of an ac-dc single phase active rectifier stage followed by a dc-dc dual active bridge (DAB) stage. small-signal models suited for stability analysis of this charger are derived. Controller design considerations are discussed in order...
Based on the impedance stability analysis method, in this paper, the factors that might lead to sub-synchronous oscillation(SSO) were analyzed from the line parameters, internal control parameters and other aspects for solving the SSO problems caused by some parameters were set unreasonable for Double Fed Induction Generator(DFIG) to access the VSC-HVDC system. Firstly, the AC-side small-signal impedance...
In cascaded-type microgrid, the synchronization and power sharing of distributed generators (DGs) become two new issues that needs to be addressed urgently. In this paper, a unified droop control is proposed and its stability is analyzed in the islanded mode. The proposed scheme can ensure the system stability and accurate power sharing without communication in four-quadrant operations. Finally, simulation...
Multi-terminal dc (MTDC) grid has been considered as a promising future transmission and distribution system architecture, especially for remote renewable energy integration. However, short-circuit faults can be more detrimental to dc grids than ac grids. The lack of effective and economical dc circuit breakers and potential significant impact of dc fault on the connected ac system have become the...
A power-electronics-based DC-distribution system is a complex and extensively interconnected system consisting of multiple power converters. Consequently, a number of issues related to stability arise due to interactions among multiple converter subsystems. Recent studies have presented methods such as passivity-based stability criterion where the stability and other dynamic characteristics of an...
Solid state transformers (SSTs) can be interconnected with each other through a distribution feeder to form a smart grid. When the main grid is disconnected, SSTs form an islanded microgrid. With available communications, master-slave microgrid control structure can be adopted. The system-level stability analysis can be simplified by considering only the grid interface stage of the SST. The loop feeder...
A hybrid impedance model of Islanded MicroGrid with Paralleled Inverters Controlled by Droop and PQ Strategies (IMG-PICDPS) is derived, in which the PQ-controlled Inverters (PQ-Invs) are equivalent to Norton's circuits, while the DRoop-controlled Inverters (DR-Inv) to Thevenin's circuits in this paper. An impedance-based stability analysis method is further proposed according to the Nyquist criterion...
Full Feed-forward (FF) approach has been proved to be an effective method to suppress the output current distortion of the LCL type grid-connected inverter (GCI) due to grid voltage harmonics. Since most of the existing FF approachs are realized by digital control, a futher study of the digital control based (DCB) FF approach has been carried out in this paper firstly. It is shown that, there are...
The increasing use of grid-connected inverters to connect renewable energy sources to a power grid will have globally important effect on grid performance. A mismatch between the grid and inverter impedance may cause harmonic resonances, which can lead to instability of the grid and disruption of inverter operation. The grid dynamics vary over time, so the inverter should adapt to the varying conditions...
As the penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) increases, variation of system impedance seen from grid-connected converters becomes much larger than expected. In this situation, stable operation of converter becomes more challenging. One of the issues caused by system impedance is resonance harmonic problem. Typically active damping control is used and designed based on the known conditions...
In DC microgrids, constant power loads (CPLs) would lead to a destabilizing effect that may cause the main bus voltage oscillation. Hence, most researcher are exploring the stabilization methods for DC/DC buck converters feeding CPLs. In practical applications, buck converters are always cascaded with LC input filters to prevent the switching harmonics from returning into the source. With the addition...
The stability analysis of multi-stage DC-DC converters system is a big challenge, since the interaction among the individual converters can lead to an instability of the whole system. This paper applied the stability analysis method based on Floquet theory for a three-stage DC-DC converters system. In this paper, the stability analysis method based on Floquet theory is reviewed at the beginning. Following,...
This paper addresses the harmonic current control for LCL-filtered Voltage-Source Converters (VSCs) connected to ultra-weak (high-impedance) grids. It is shown that the harmonic current controllers tend to be unstable as the Short-Circuit Ratio (SCR) of the system reduces. An active stabilizing control scheme is thus proposed by feeding back the filter capacitor voltage and the converter-side current...
Solid state transformers (SSTs) include dc subsystems to enable plug-and-play support of dc loads, generation sources, and energy storage. Dual active bridge (DAB) converters are a suitable topology for both the primary energy conversion and load interface applications in an SST. This study considers an SST that uses DAB converters for both applications, and describes a method of generating a full...
Frequency domain passivity theory is used to evaluate harmonic resonance instabilities in a system with multiple grid-tied voltage source converters (VSCs), and subsequently, a stabilizing controller using predictive current control (PCC) method is proposed to prevent such instabilities. The input admittance of VSCs using PCC can achieve passivity almost up to the Nyquist frequency. This research...
Because of the differences in line impedances, parallel inverters with conventional droop control will have huge circulating current, which does not flow through the loads. To mitigate the circulating current, the research in this paper finds out that parallel-operated inverters should have the impedance in inverse proportion to their capacities, which is difficult to realize in practice. To meet...
To avoid the stability problem of grid connected inverter caused by the conventional phase locked loop (PLL), the direct power control of voltage source inverter in virtual synchronous reference frame without PLL is investigated considering grid voltage disturbance in the paper. Based on the small signal analysis methods, comparison between conventional PLL and no PLL is made. It can be found that...
As a basic building block, the phase-locked loop (PLL) has been widely used in the grid-connected voltage source inverter (VSI). But it has been shown recently that PLL has adverse impact on stability of grid-inverter system. In a weak grid, the PLL may cause unexpected harmonic, or even instability. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes a q-axis voltage feedforward control method...
Small-signal models of impedances for grid-tied converters have recently attracting researchers' attention and shown of great importance in stability analysis. This paper proposes the impedance model in d-q frame for STATCOMs, including dynamics from synchronization, current and voltage loops and reveals the significant features compared to other types of grid-tied converters that the 1) grid impedance...
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