Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a converter cell (4) for an MMC. The cell comprises a primary energy storage (C m ), an inductor (Lf), and a secondary energy storage (C f ); and first and second converter valves (Τ1, T2). The secondary energy storage (C f ) is connected in series with the first converter valve (T1), and together with said first converter valve in parallel with the inductor (L f ), and the primary energy storage (C m ) is connected in series with the second converter valve (T2), and together with said second converter valve (T2) in parallel with the inductor (L f ).
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a Voltage Source Converter (VSC) control system (1) for active damping (AD) of a resonance oscillation in the VSC. The control system comprises a regular Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) (2), and a slow PLL (3). The control system is arranged such that the imaginary (q) part of the AD signal is obtained from the slow PLL. The slow PLL is configured for having a closed-loop bandwidth less than the frequency of the resonance oscillation to be dampened. The second PLL (3) is required to solve stability issues resulting from the negative impedance effect of the PLL (2) control loop on the VSC.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a grid forming vector current control system configured to emulate a virtual synchronous machine (VSM). The disclosed system comprises a droop control unit, a current control unit, a virtual admittance unit and a phase locked loop (PLL) unit. The virtual admittance unit and the PLL unit are configured to emulate an inertia of the VSM. A virtual current source is connected in parallel to the VSM.
Abstract:
A multi-level power converter for one or more phases. The converter comprises one or more converter arms (3) comprising a plurality of serial connected switching cells (20). Each switching cell (20) comprises a plurality of switching devices (40a, 40b, 40c, 40d), a primary energy storage (50),a secondary energy storage (52) and a first inductor (54). The switching devices are arranged to selectively provide a connection to the primary energy storage, wherein each switching cell comprises a bridge circuit (60) comprising the switching devices and the primary energy storage, a battery circuit (62) connected to the bridge circuit and comprising the secondary energy storage, and an arm circuit (64) providing a connection between two adjacent switching cells. The first inductor of each switching cell is arranged in the arm circuit.
Abstract:
A submodule (SMA) for a modular multilevel converter comprises a capacitor(C SM ),a first group of series-connected switching units and a first chain link branch comprising a first chain-link (CL 1 ),wherein the first group of switching units is connected in parallel with the capacitor (C SM) and where a first switching unit (SU 1 ,) comprises a first switching element (T 1 ) with a first anti-parallel unidirectional conducting element (D 1 ) and a second switching unit (SU 2 ) comprises a second switching element (T 2 ) with a second anti-parallel unidirectional conducting element (D2),the first switching element (T 1 ) is controllable to be turned on via a control terminal and to be turned off through reverse-biasing, and the first chain link branch is connected in parallel with the first switching unit (SU 1 ) and the first chain link (CL 1 ) comprises cascaded cells controllable to provide voltage contributions combinable to form positive and negative voltages across the first switching element.
Abstract:
An electrical converter (14) comprising at least two converter branches (14a, 14b) connected in parallel between a power source and/or load (12) and a transformer (16). A method for controlling the electrical converter (14) comprises: measuring a DC link voltage (vdc,I, vdc,II) and determining a reference DC link voltage vdc,Iref,vdc,IIref of a DC link (26) of each converter branch (14a, 14b); calculating a measured sum voltage (vdc,sum), which is the sum of the measured DC link voltages (vdc,I, vdc,II), and at least one measured difference voltage (vdc,diff), which is the difference of two of the at least two measured DC link voltages (vdc,I, vdc,II); calculating a reference sum voltage vdc,sumref, which is the sum of the reference DC link voltages vdc,Iref,vdc,IIref and at least one reference difference voltage vdc,diffref, which is the difference of two of the at least two reference DC link voltages vdc,Iref,vdc,IIref ; calculating a sum voltage error (Δvdc,sum), which is the difference of the measured sum voltage (vdc,sum) and the reference measured sum voltage vdc,sumref, and at least one difference voltage error (Δvdc,diff), which is the difference of the measured difference voltage (vdc,diff) and the reference difference voltage vdc,diffref; determining a sum reference quantity id,sumref,Te,sumref from the sum voltage error (Δvdc,sum) by inputting the sum voltage error (Δvdc,sum) into a sum PI controller (40a); determining at least one difference reference quantity id,diffref,Te,diffref from the at least one difference voltage error (Δvdc,diff) by inputting the difference voltage error (Δvdc,diff) into a difference PI controller (40b), wherein a gain (kp,sum) of the sum PI controller (40a) is higher than a gain (kp,diff) of the difference PI controller (40b); and controlling the converter branches (14a, 14b) based on the sum reference quantity id,sumref,Te,sumref and the at least one difference reference quantity id,diffref,Te,diffref.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a grid forming vector current control system configured to emulate a virtual synchronous machine (VSM). The disclosed system comprises a droop control unit, a current control unit, a virtual admittance unit and a phase locked loop (PLL) unit. The virtual admittance unit and the PLL unit are configured to emulate an inertia of the VSM. A virtual current source is connected in parallel to the VSM.