LAPSE:2019.1125
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LAPSE:2019.1125
Fault Ride-Through Capability Enhancement of Type-4 WECS in Offshore Wind Farm via Nonlinear Adaptive Control of VSC-HVDC
Yiyan Sang, Bo Yang, Hongchun Shu, Na An, Fang Zeng, Tao Yu
November 5, 2019
This paper proposes a perturbation estimation-based nonlinear adaptive control (NAC) for a voltage-source converter-based high voltage direct current (VSC-HVDC) system which is applied to interconnect offshore large-scale wind farms to the onshore main grid in order to enhance the fault ride-through (FRT) capability of Type-4 wind energy conversion systems (WECS). The VSC-HVDC power transmission system is regraded as a favourable solution for interconnecting offshore wind farms. To improve the FRT capability of offshore power plants, a de-loading strategy is investigated with novel advanced control of the VSC-HVDC systems. The proposed NAC does not require an accurate and precise model and full state measurements since the combinatorial effects of nonlinearities, system parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances are aggregated into a perturbation term, which are estimated by a high-gain perturbation observer (HGPO) and fully compensated for. As the proposed NAC is adaptive to system model uncertainties (e.g., mismatched output impedance of the converters and the line impedance of transmission line), time-varying disturbance (e.g., AC grid voltage sags and line to ground faults), and unknown time-varying nonlinearities of the power-electronic system (e.g., unmodelled dynamics existed in valve and VSC phase-locked loop system), a significant robustness can be provided by the de-loading strategy to enhance the FRT capability. Simulation results illustrated that the proposed strategy can provide improved dynamic performance in the case of operation with a variety of reduced voltage levels and improved robustness against model uncertainties and mismatched system parameters comparing with conventional vector control.
Keywords
fault ride-through, nonlinear adaptive control, VSC-HVDC system, wind energy conversion system
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Sang Y, Yang B, Shu H, An N, Zeng F, Yu T. Fault Ride-Through Capability Enhancement of Type-4 WECS in Offshore Wind Farm via Nonlinear Adaptive Control of VSC-HVDC. (2019). LAPSE:2019.1125
Author Affiliations
Sang Y: Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GJ, UK
Yang B: Faculty of Electric Power Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Shu H: Faculty of Electric Power Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
An N: Faculty of Electric Power Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Zeng F: Faculty of Electric Power Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Yu T: College of Electric Power, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China [ORCID]
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Processes
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7
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8
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E540
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2019
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2019-08-15
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2227-9717
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