Transient stability enhancement of virtual synchronous generators with virtual resistance

Virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) incorporate virtual resistance (VR) in inverter control as a damping mechanism for oscillations that appear around the synchronous frequency due to interactions between the inverter impedance and the line impedance while operating in low inertia grids. Damping i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Electrical Engineering 2024-12, Vol.75 (6), p.435-448
Hauptverfasser: Ebinyu, Emmanuel, Abdel-Rahim, Omar, Abdelkader, Sobhy M., Shoyama, Masahito, Mansour, Diaa-Eldin A.
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Zusammenfassung:Virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) incorporate virtual resistance (VR) in inverter control as a damping mechanism for oscillations that appear around the synchronous frequency due to interactions between the inverter impedance and the line impedance while operating in low inertia grids. Damping is critical for synchronization stability in the small-signal and large-signal disturbance scenarios to suppress oscillations that threaten system stability. While VR enhances stability in the steady state, it is shown that its conventional application affects the transient stability of VSGs by reducing the angle overshoot range in the dynamic behaviour of the power angle δ, illustrated using the power-angle ( − ) and frequency-angle ( ̇− ) curves. In this article, a novel damping mechanism to improve the transient stability of VSGs using VR to enhance the power angle dynamics is proposed. By using the concept of virtual point of common coupling, the virtual power of the internal VSG is introduced in the active power feedback during a voltage sag, providing an equivalent damping effect proportional to the VR applied. In this way, the negative effects of VR on transient stability are averted while VR is used to improve the power angle dynamics of conventional VSG. Simulations of different transient stability scenarios are carried out in MATLAB/Simulink to verify the proposed method.
ISSN:1339-309X
1335-3632
1339-309X
DOI:10.2478/jee-2024-0052