Improved Control Strategy of Grid-Forming Inverters for Fault Ride-Through in a Microgrid System: Preprint

Conference · Thu Aug 11 00:00:00 EDT 2022

OSTI ID:1882192

Wang, Jing

This paper develops improved control strategy of GFM inverter with fault ride-through (FRT) capabilities to guarantee stable operation of microgrid under fault conditions especially islanded microgrid and asymmetrical faults. The proposed control strategy includes dual control of positive-sequence and negative-sequence control, and the adaptive virtual impedance (VI) control. Unlike the existing works, the proposed strategy only applies the VI control for the d-component of the positive-sequence control and leaves the q-component of positive-sequence control and dq-component of negative-sequence control zero, thus achieving the improved stability and balanced three-phase voltage under asymmetrical faults. The adaptive feature of the VI control guarantees the stability of the GFM inverter under severe faults which could cause saturated inner current loop and instability if the VI is not adaptive. Simulation results of a phase-to-phase-ground fault show that the proposed control strategy improves the stability of GFM and achieves the stable and balanced output voltages in islanded microgrid.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1882192
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5D00-82049; MainId:82822; UUID:16ee5934-1fc3-4622-8e8b-9e9b6ddc863f; MainAdminID:65101
• Conference Information: Presented at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expedition (ECCE), 9-13 October 2022, Detroit, Michigan
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

fault ride-through
grid-forming inverter
microgrid
POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
virtual impedance control