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Dual voltage-current control to provide grid-forming inverters with current limiting capability

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2022-12-07

Date

2021

Director

Publisher

IEEE
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa

Project identifier

AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-110956RB-I00/ES/

Abstract

The rapid uptake of renewable energy sources is causing synchronous generators (SG) to be replaced by power electronic inverters meaning these inverters need to offer the characteristics traditionally associated with SG. As a result, it has been proposed that the inverters should be controlled in grid-forming mode in order to support the voltage of the microgrids. Given that these inverters are controlled as a voltage source, temporary events such as short-circuits or overloads could cause currents that are far higher than the rated current. As the semiconductors used in power electronics are highly sensitive to overcurrents, this paper proposes a dual voltage-current control that provides the grid-forming inverters with the capability to quickly limit the current under any overload or short-circuit condition. The proposed method has been validated through experimental tests in stand-alone mode.

Keywords

Current control, Grid-forming control, Overload, Short-circuit, Voltage control

Department

Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación / Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren

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Funding entities

This work hasbeen supported by theSpanish State Research Agency (AEI) under grantPID2019-110956RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and by the Public University of Navarre through a doctoral scholarship.

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