Abstract
As dominant power sources, the safe and reliable operation of photovoltaic (PV) generators is crucial for the DC distribution network. This study analyzes the transient stability of PV generators under large disturbances and proposes a variable parameter control strategy to suppress the transient instability. First, the transient stability of the PV generators is analyzed using the proposed power–voltage evolution curve. It is found that the PV side easily suffers undervoltage faults during the transient process, which will cause instability of the system. Based on the revealed unstable mechanism, the variable parameter control is proposed to enhance the transient stability of PV generators. Finally, all the findings have been validated by hardware-in-loop tests.
Introduction
In recent years, the demand for clean renewable energy sources has attracted the worldwide attention in order to alleviate the environmental degradation and the traditional fossil fuel energy depletion crisis (). As one of the most important renewable energy sources, solar energy is of great significance to energy security (Zhao et al., 2019), and photovoltaic (PV) power generation is the major form to utilize solar energy. Thanks to the technological advancements in solar cell manufacturing and semiconductors, the inexhaustible PV generators have been developed into one of the most prospective sources () (Safayatullah et al., 2021).
PV generation technology has been developing rapidly all over the world; many scholars have conducted extensive and in-depth research on current issues such as PV system modeling (; ; ), power generation (; Sangwongwanich et al., 2016; ), materials (Uprety et al., 2018;), and control strategies (Shadmand et al., 2014; Weckx et al., 2014; Quan et al., 2020), and many achievements have been obtained. However, with the expansion of the PV power generation scale, especially as the role of PV power generation changes from auxiliary power to dominant power, its dynamic characteristics play an important role in the stable operation of power system. Due to the intermittent and fluctuation characteristics of PV power generation, its large-scale grid connection brings great challenges to the stability of the power system () (Wang et al., 2016).
PV generators show DC characteristics, and if they can be connected to the DC distribution, additional DC/AC conversion stages will be saved compared to being connected to the traditional AC distribution network (). On the other hand, the DC distribution network can also avoid additional DC/AC conversion stages when providing power for DC loads. Therefore, the development of the DC distribution network can obviously improve system efficiency when the power system integrates DC sources and DC loads (Song et al., 2013). Nevertheless, with the high penetration of PV generators, the dynamics and characteristics of DC distribution network will be changed profoundly, and the system stability is greatly influenced (; ).
Shah et al. (2015) extensively reviewed the stability challenges for the integration of large-scale PV generators. The existing studies on the stability analysis of PV generators can be divided into small-signal stability (; ) and transient stability (or large-signal stability) (; ; Xiao and Fang, 2010; ). The former topic focuses on the system dynamics under small disturbances, while the latter topic mainly pays attention to the system dynamics under large disturbances. Much attention is paid to small-signal stability, and relevant research on different problems such as power harmonic stability (Wang and Blaabjerg, 2019; Wang et al., 2014), harmonic resonance (; ), and weak grid (Xia et al., 2019; ) are mature. Moreover, related analysis methods such as impedance analysis (Sun, 2011; Zeng et al., 2011; Zhou et al., 2018), modal analysis (), and state space method (; ) have been discussed in depth. However, if large disturbances occur, the small-signal stability analysis is no longer applicable, and the transient stability analysis is indispensable. Transient stability refers to the ability of the system to resume normal operation after a sudden and serious failure occurs (), while only a few research studies can be found on this field, especially for the PV generators in the DC distribution network.
In Yagami and Tamura (2012), the influence of PV generators on transient stability of the power system has been analyzed using a single-machine infinite bus system. Furthermore, ) revealed the key factors that influence the transient stability including fault locations, disturbance types, topologies, and high PV penetration levels. In ), a transient stability criterion for PV generators with DC-link control and reactive power control is proposed, and this criterion is applicable to all kinds of short circuit faults. ) explained the transient stability behavior of the droop-controlled voltage source converters (VSC) theoretically. This study shows that transient instability will occur to the droop-controlled VSC when its current is saturated under large disturbances. Then, a modified P-f droop control is proposed to deal with this problem and to enhance the system transient stability. In Zhang et al. (2017), the transient stability of the grid-connected VSC is analyzed by the modified equal area criterion. However, the conventional equal area criterion-based stability analysis is not applicable for PV generators connected to the DC distribution network.
The aforementioned research studies on transient stability analysis mainly focus on the AC distribution network which mainly draw lessons from the stability analysis of synchronous generators. Based on the power–angle relationships, the transient stability of PV generators connected to the AC distribution network can be analyzed effectively. Nevertheless, for the DC distribution network, there is no mature experience that can be referred to; hence, much fundamental research should be developed.
Wang et al. (2013) proposed a voltage hierarchical coordination control strategy. The operating state is switched in real time according to the DC bus voltage deviation value, which can maintain the system stability. However, it is difficult to give a good support if a sudden change occurs in DC bus voltage. Many scholars () () constructed corresponding Lyapunov functions in order to analyze the convergence of the system trajectory and to determine the attraction domain of the system. ) employed Brayton–Moser mixed potential functions to confirm the transient stability boundary of the whole system. ) reviewed the Lyapunov-based large-signal stability studies and proposed the direction for future research. In ), an improved analysis method for transient response characteristics of the load converter is proposed, and a more precise stability criterion is obtained. However, the results of the Lyapunov direct method tend to be conservative, and there does not exist a widely accepted theory on how to construct Lyapunov functions. Compared with the full-fledged linear system analysis method, the information obtained from the Lyapunov function is very limited, which is not conducive to revealing the essential stability mechanism.
Focusing on the aforementioned challenges, this article proposes a new paradigm to analyze the transient stability of PV generators under large disturbances when they are connected to the DC distribution network. First, the large-signal model of a single-PV generator connected to the DC bus is established. Then, the transient stability of the PV generator during the DC bus voltage sag and recovery stages is analyzed using the proposed power–voltage evolution curve, which contrasts with the power–angle curve in the AC power system. The influence of corresponding control parameters is carefully studied, and the unstable mechanism is revealed. It is found that the PV side easily suffers undervoltage faults during the transient process, which will cause instability of the system. Next, the variable parameter control is proposed to enhance the transient stability based on the revealed unstable mechanism. The effectiveness of the proposed transient stability analysis and control methods is validated through related hardware-in-loop tests.
The remainder of this article is organized as follows: In Large-Signal Model of PV Generators Connected to DC Distribution Network section, the large-signal model of a single PV generator connected to the DC bus is established. Then, Transient Stability Analysis Based on the Power–Voltage Evolution Curve section analyzes the transient stability using the power–voltage evolution curve in detail. After that, the proposed variable parameter control method is introduced in Variable Parameter Control for the Transient Stability Enhancement section. The related real-time hardware-in-loop (HIL) tests are conducted in Hardware-in-loop Tests section. At last, Conclusion section concludes this article.
Large-Signal Model of PV Generators Connected to the DC Distribution Network
The topology of a PV generator connected to the DC distribution network is shown in Figure 1. The buck DC/DC converter is connected the PV generator and the DC distribution network. The capacitor on the PV side is ; the output voltage, current, and power of the PV panel are , , and , respectively. The output of the buck DC/DC converter is filtered using an LCL filter, the corresponding inductors and capacitor are , , and , whose inductive currents and capacitive voltage are , , and . The input power and output power of the whole DC/DC converter system are and . The DC distribution network is simplified as an ideal voltage source .
FIGURE 1
There is a breaker between the PV generator and the DC distribution network. If serious faults occur, the breaker will be triggered and the PV generator will be disconnected, especially when the input voltage of the buck DC/DC converter is lower than its output voltage, that is, .
Figure 1 also shows the control method, which is a typical multi-loop control strategy (Tafti et al., 2018). The whole control strategy can be divided into three parts, namely, the outermost loop, the middle loop, and the innermost loop. The outermost loop is a PV power control loop based on the perturbation and observation (P&O) method, which generates reference PV voltage for the middle loop. The middle loop is the PV voltage control loop, which enables to follow the reference value precisely through a proportional–integral (PI) controller. It is worth noting that this PI controller sets a limit on the output amplitude to avoid overcurrent faults of the converter. At the same time, the middle loop generates the reference output current for the innermost loop. Last, the innermost loop is the output current control loop, which realizes accurate current tracking based on a PI controller. In addition, the proportional controller-based damping control is adopted to enhance the system stability.
Usually, the bandwidth of the innermost current loop is 10 times larger than that of the outer loop, as shown in Figure 1. Therefore, the system dynamics during large disturbances are mainly dominated by the slow outer loops. To simplify the analysis, the current loop can be viewed as a unity gain (Wu and Wang, 2020), and the output inductor current can track its reference value in time. Hence, it can be obtained as follows:where and are the proportional and integral coefficients of the PV voltage loop, is the output of the integral controller, and is the allowable maximum output current of the voltage control loop, as shown in Figure 1. Under large disturbances, the outermost power control loop will freeze its output to avoid the disorder of the P&O method. Hence, is constant during the large disturbance period. It can be seen that is greatly influenced by .
Furthermore, if the loss of the switch tubes and filters is ignored (Severino and Strunz, 2019), that is,Then, the PV side model can be established as follows:where and are the number of modules in parallel and series, respectively; and are short circuit current and open circuit voltage of a single module, respectively; and are the coefficients of current and voltage, respectively; is the difference between the actual and rated temperature; and are the actual and rated irradiance, respectively; is the thermal voltage; is the ideal diode constant () (Villalva et al., 2009); and is the output power of the PV panels. The relationship between and is shown in Figure 2, where is the maximum power and is the corresponding voltage.
FIGURE 2
Combining (1)–(3), the simplified large-signal model of the PV generator can be derived as shown in Figure 3. The PI controller of the PV voltage loop is equivalent to a parallel form consisting of a resistor and an inductor. The corresponding resistance and inductance are and , respectively. It should be noted that the amplitude-limiting part of this PI controller are not presented, but its function is taken into consideration when the stability is analyzed. From this figure, it can be seen that the large disturbance of can directly influence the PV side voltage , which makes exceed its normal range easily and causes the instability of the PV generator. In addition, the whole model is strongly non-linear, including PV panels, power coupling, and amplitude limiting. Therefore, its transient stability analysis is challenging and needs new methods.
FIGURE 3
Transient Stability Analysis Based on the Power–Voltage Evolution Curve
In this section, the transient stability of the PV generator is analyzed when it suffers the DC bus voltage sag faults of the outer DC distribution network based on the established large-signal model in Large-Signal Model of PV Generators Connected to DC Distribution Network Section.
Figure 4 shows the typical DC bus voltage profile when sag faults occur. The voltage sag occurs at the time and disappears at . In this figure, and denote the DC bus voltage under the normal and fault states, respectively.
FIGURE 4
For the traditional AC distribution network, it is required that PV generators output maximum reactive currents to support the AC bus voltage. Hence, the PV side voltage is not tightly related to the AC bus voltage. However, for the DC distribution network, only the active power is considered and PV generators should output maximum active currents to support the DC bus voltage, and the active power will influence the dynamics of the PV side voltage. Therefore, the PV side voltage is tightly related to the DC bus voltage, as shown in Figure 3. This is the nature difference between DC grid-connected PV generators and AC grid-connected PV generators.
When the DC bus voltage sag occurs, the original active power balance on both sides of the capacitor will be broken, which will change the charging and discharging states of . As a result, the value of PV side voltage will alter, which will affect the stability of the whole system.
From Eqs 2, 3, it can be seen that the output power and PV side power , are closely related to as shown in Figure 5. For example, when increases, will also increase according to the PI control relationship, as shown in Eq. 1, and then will increase according to Eq. 2. Moreover, depending on the PV output model in Figure 2, may increase or decrease. When and are not equal, capacitor will be in a charging or discharging state, further changing the value of . For the same analysis logic, a decrease in can be deduced. Hence, it is a good choice to describe the relationship between and and using the power–voltage evolution curve as shown later.
FIGURE 5
Transient Process Under DC Bus Voltage Sag
In the analysis of this study, when the DC distribution network encounters a large disturbance, the transient evolution process can be divided into two stages, namely, the voltage sag stage and the voltage recovery stage of the DC bus. The whole system transient dynamics during the voltage sag and the recovery process using the power–voltage evolution curve are illustrated in Figure 6. The black curve describes the changing process of with , the red curve describes the correspondence between output active power and during the voltage sag stage, while the blue curve represents the relationship during the voltage recovery stage. The arrows on each curve represent the movement path of the working point.
FIGURE 6
In the normal state, the PV panel tracks the maximum power point, that is, works at point 1 in Figure 6. In this state,where is the maximum power of the PV panel and is the corresponding maximum power point voltage.
When the DC distribution network suddenly suffers large disturbances, drops sharply from to and suddenly decreases too, that is, the operating point of decreases from point 1 to point 2 instantly at the fault-occurring instant. Since PV power cannot change immediately, during this period, , the capacitor is in the charging state, the value of increases, and the operating point of moves from point 1 to point 4 on the black curve. As a result, the value of keeps decreasing.
According to (1), when increases, at first, keeps increasing until it reaches and stays unchanged, and then increases from point 2 to point 3, where . Later, remains constant and the operation point moves from point 3 to point 4.
On the other hand, an increase in will lead to a decrease in when . Finally, the operation point of moves to point 4, where is equal to . At this point, the capacitor stops charging and reaches its maximum value and no longer increases, indicating that the system reaches the steady state.
After the DC bus voltage sag lasts for a period of time, the fault is cleared and the DC bus voltage returns to normal. The voltage recovery stage can be subdivided into three substages. Concretely, substage Ⅰ: decreases from to , substage Ⅱ: decreases from to , and substage Ⅲ: returns from to .
In substage Ⅰ, the fault disappears and returns to with a sharp rise. Then, suddenly increases to the maximum value , and the operation point moves from point 4 to point 5.
During this period, , capacitor is in the discharging state, the value of decreases, and the operating point of moves from point 4 to point 1 on the black curve. As a result, the value of keeps increasing until is equal to .
Since is always larger than , stays the same as because of the amplitude limiting part of the PI controller. also stays unchanged, and the operation point moves from point 5 to point 6.
In substage Ⅱ, continues to decline since . Then, , causing the PI controller of voltage control loop to desaturate. The relationship between and can be rewritten as follows:where denotes the time when decreases to . As continues to decline, both and will decrease. In this substage, all the time, so stays in the discharging state and keeps decreasing, and then will decrease until reaches , where is equal to . We can see from Figure 6 intuitively that the operation point of moves from point 1 to point 7 and moves from point 6 to point 7. Then, reaches its minimum value and no longer decreases.
However, the system does not reach the steady state because the value of is not equal to and the output of the PI controller is still changing. Hence, in substage Ⅲ, and will decrease at first, then indicating that the capacitor is in the charging state, so will keep increasing until . As a result, the operation points of and retrace through the blue curve and black curve, respectively, and finally reach point 1 after several cycles of oscillation, and the system realizes stabilization. The whole dynamic process has been analyzed in detail using the proposed power–voltage evolution curve.
Influence of Parameters During the Voltage Recovery Stage
Following the analysis of the transient dynamic process during and after voltage sag, the influence of parameters is analyzed in this section.
First, from the perspective of small-signal stability, the bandwidth of voltage loop and current loop should be matched with each other. If the control parameters and are too large, the bandwidth of the voltage loop is close to or even exceeds the bandwidth of the current loop, which will jeopardize the small-signal stability of the whole system.
Furthermore, as mentioned in Large-Signal Model of PV Generators Connected to DC Distribution Network section, the buck DC/DC converter, which is a step-down converter, connects the PV generator and the DC distribution network. Hence, the input voltage should be higher than the output voltage all the time, which is a problem that tends to be overlooked.
During the voltage recovery stage, reaches the minimum value . Only the condition with can avoid tripping caused by undervoltage faults in practical application. Hence, the value of should be larger than , and the influence of parametric effect is worth studying.
Rewriting (3) yields the following equation:where is the output current of the PV panels, and the related parameters are the same as those in Eq. 3.
Considering substage Ⅱ of the voltage recovery phase mentioned earlier, taking the derivation on both sides of Eq. 5 and combining it with Eq. 2 yields the following equation:
Combining Eqs. 1–7 and Figure 6, it is found that parameters , , and have a great influence on the dynamic characteristics of the system. Since the system model is a complex non-linear differential equation, it is hard to find symbolic solution. So the numerical solution is adopted, and the phase portrait approach could provide an intuitive analysis.
Figure 7 shows the influences of different parameters. The blue curve represents the relationship between and , while the curves of other colors depict the relationship between and under different conditions. The effects of different with the same and are evaluated in Figure 7A, the effects of different with the same and are analyzed in Figure 7B, and the effects of different with the same and are depicted in Figure 7C.
FIGURE 7
From the perspective of the system stability, the input PV voltage of the buck DC/DC converter should not be too low. In Figure 7A, Figure 7B, and Figure 7C, represents the allowable minimum value of that can ensure normal operation of the DC/DC buck converter. In other words, if the intersection voltage of the two curves lies on the left of like point of the green line in each photo, the breaker will be triggered. As the three pictures show, by increasing , , or , the slope of the curve will increase, so that the intersection point may move to the right of . It is obvious that these parameters have a non-negligible influence on both the dynamic characteristic and transient stability of the whole system.
Substituting (6) and (7) yields the following equation:
Eq. 8 gives the slope of the curve, which can reflect the variation trend of the curve.
Proposition 1During the dynamic process shown in Figure 6, the following equation holds:
ProofDuring the dynamic process shown in Figure 7, is lower than all the time; hence, the numerator is always less than zero. On the other hand, from Figure 3, the denominator is essentially the current passing through the capacitor . Then, it is easy to figure out that the denominator is also less than zero as capacitor is discharging. As a result, (9) holds.Based on Proposition 1, it can be concluded that a larger , , or will cause a larger slope of the curve, and consequently, the intersection points will be more to the right like from point to point , which enhances the transient stability during the voltage recovery stage.At the same time, from the aforementioned analysis, it can be seen that the stable constraints of small-signal stability and transient stability for controller parameters of PV voltage control loop are mutually contradictory. The proper control parameters can be chosen by making a trade-off between the small-signal stability and the transient stability constraints. The aforementioned conclusions have important value for parameter tuning in the experimental process.The proposed transient stability analysis method based on the power–voltage evolution curve has many advantages over the existing methods (such as the Lyapunov-based large-signal stability analysis method). First, the Lyapunov method needs to construct an appropriate energy function to analyze the transient stability of the system. The difficulty is that it is not easy to construct the energy function, and the correct result cannot be obtained by using an incorrect energy function. The method proposed in this article does not have this problem, and it is easy to obtain the corresponding relationship between power and voltage, so it is not difficult to analyze the dynamic process of the system in each stage of transient response. Second, the results obtained by using the Lyapunov method are usually conservative, which can only know whether the system is stable but cannot accurately estimate the attraction domain of the system. The proposed method can accurately judge the stability range and stability boundary of the system. Third, the information obtained by using the Lyapunov method is very limited, which is not conducive to revealing the essential stability mechanism of the system. The proposed method can accurately reflect the dynamic response of the system in the transient process and can reveal the stability/instability mechanism of the system well.
Variable Parameter Control for the Transient Stability Enhancement
From the analysis presented in Transient Stability Analysis Based on the Power–Voltage Evolution Curve section, the system will lose its stability, and the tripping of circuit breaker may take place when . In contrast, appropriately increasing parameters , , or is beneficial to system stability. Since the capacitor is difficult to be replaced during the actual experiment, it is more common to change the control parameter. Inspired by this mechanism, the variable parameter control is introduced in this section to enhance the system transient stability during the DC bus voltage recovery stage. The basic idea is to increase the values of , appropriately at the beginning of the voltage recovery stage and let them recover after a period of time, which thus guarantees the transient stability during the voltage recovery stage.
Figure 8A shows the proposed variable parameter control structure, and its switching logic is displayed in Figure 8B. Compared to the conventional control, as shown in Figure 1, only a switching logic mode is added. The subscripts 1 and 2 of the control parameters and represent their values under the normal and transient states, respectively. The two values have the following relationship to ensure that the system gets out of the unstable state as follows:In the voltage recovery stage, the DC bus voltage increases sharply from to . When the voltage sensor detects this step, namely,where and represent the values of the detected DC bus voltage at the current and last moments, respectively, and is a given voltage value meaning a sudden and significant increase in DC bus voltage. Once this event happens, it suggests that the fault is cleared and the voltage recovery stage begins. The value of and can be appropriately increased to avoid instability.
FIGURE 8
After a period of time, , , and return to their normal and values. The method to determine is described as follows. In substage Ⅱof the voltage recovery stage, the idea is that before drops to its minimum value , the value of and remains at their increased values, namely, and , respectively. Considering that the curve of changing with time is smooth, when reaches , it can be considered that the derivative of with respect to time, namely, , is equal to zero. Therefore, this time is considered, that is, the time when , minus the time at the beginning of substage Ⅱ, it is the desired . The main equations have already been written and now we rewrite them with a few modifications as follows:where denotes the time when decreases to and denotes the time when decreases to ; the meanings of the other parameters have always been described. Then, can be obtained using (13).
With the power–voltage evolution curve shown in Figure 6, the proposed variable parameter control method can increase the slope of the blue curve from point 6 to point 7 by increasing and , which means that the intersection points of two curves will shift to the right. Hence, the value of will increase and the risk of will decrease, thus the stability of the system is enhanced.
Hardware-in-loop Tests
In order to further evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed power–voltage evolution curve analysis and variable parameter control strategy, the corresponding (HIL) experimental tests are conducted using the RT-LAB and TMS320F28335 DSP. The experimental setup of HIL tests is shown in Figure 9. The PV generator circuit studied in the experiment, which is identical to that of Figure 1, is simulated in RT-LAB, and the control algorithm is realized using TMS320F28335 DSP.
FIGURE 9
The whole experiment has experienced four stages: normal stage → fault stage → recovery stage →normal stage. During the normal stage, the DC bus voltage is , while in the fault stage, . In this test, a voltage drop of more than half of the normal voltage value, that is, 250 V, is considered to enter the fault stage. Hence, the given fault detection voltage . The other circuit parameters and controller parameters are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Filters | |
| PV capacitance | |
| Maximum current | 90 A |
| Reference PV power and voltage | 23 kW, 774 V |
| Voltage loop (PI) | , |
| Current loop (PI) | |
| Active damping | |
| Voltage change | |
| Time duration | |
| Number of modules | |
| Short circuit current and open circuit voltage | |
| Coefficients of current and voltage | 0.0032A/K, −0.123V/K |
| Temperature difference | 0 |
| Actual and rated irradiance | |
| Thermal voltage | |
| Ideal diode constant | |
| Fault detection voltage | 250 V |
Parameters of the system and the PV generator.
In the following experiments, we test the influence of different parameters and the proposed variable parameter control strategy on the stability of the whole system. These results are shown in Figure 10. Figure 14 contains the voltage and power dynamic processes during the whole process. Fig. (a) of each graph shows the voltage dynamics of and , and Fig. (b) exhibits the power dynamics of and .
FIGURE 10
Figure 10A and Figure 10B show the dynamic process with the initial parameters, that is, , and . When these parameters are relatively small, it can be seen that drops below , the circuit breaker trips, then the PV output power becomes equal to zero, and becomes the maximum open circuit voltage, indicating that the system cannot return to the normal state and lose stability during the voltage recovery stage in this situation.
Then, increasing the values of different parameters in turn with all other parameters being equal, that is, goes from 0.1 to 0.6 in Figure 11, goes from 5 to 40 in Figure 12, and goes from 1 mF to 20 mF in Figure 13, respectively. From these three pictures, it can be seen obviously that does not decrease below anymore compared with Figure 10, and is able to return to its normal value. The experimental results can meet the related analyses well as shown in Transient Stability Analysis Based on the Power–Voltage Evolution Curve section B.
FIGURE 11
FIGURE 12
FIGURE 13
Figure 14 shows the voltage dynamics with the proposed variable parameter control under the circumstance of initial parameters, that is, , and . The curve is always above the curve which means that the proposed variable parameter control can avoid excessive drop and circuit breaker tripping, then maintain the stability of the system. By comparing Figure 14 and Figure 10, it is easy to see that the system is unstable under the original control method (without the proposed variable parameter control strategy). The stability of the system can be achieved by using the same control parameters after using the proposed variable parameter control strategy, and the superiority of the proposed variable parameter control strategy can be proven. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the variable parameter control, as shown in Variable Parameter Control for The Transient Stability Enhancement section.
FIGURE 14
It should be noted that in this HIL test, the control parameters, that is, and , are adjusted for only one particular curve in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed analysis and control strategy clearly. If environmental parameters such as solar radiation change, the maximum power of PV output will also change. The existing controller parameters also stabilize the system when the curve changes to a small degree (e.g., the maximum power point voltage changes from 774 to 800 V). However, when the curve changes greatly (e.g., the maximum power point voltage changes from 774 to 1600 V), the existing controller parameters often need to be adjusted appropriately. On this basis, other forms of variation can be made. The analysis and control methods proposed in this article can be generalized and applied to other conditions. It is neither necessary nor possible to list all PV curves.
Conclusion
This article has analyzed the transient stability of the distributed PV generator connected to the DC distribution network and proposed the variable parameter control method. First, the mathematic model is established when analyzing the transient stability. Then, the transient stability during the DC bus voltage sag and the recovery stage is analyzed using the power–voltage evolution curve. It is shown that the PV side easily suffers undervoltage faults during the transient process, and then the system will lose stability. Moreover, the influence of corresponding control parameters is carefully studied. Next, the variable parameter control is proposed according to the revealed unstable mechanism. Finally, all the findings have been confirmed by hardware-in-loop tests.
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All authors listed have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work and approved it for publication. The writing of this article was mainly completed by HH, YX and WW provided ideas and guidance for the writing of this article, and PY mainly participated in the experiment.
Funding
This work is supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFB1506801), in part by the Science and Technology Project of the State Grid Corporation of China (52110421005H), in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52007162), and in part by the Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province (2022C01161).
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Summary
Keywords
DC distribution network, photovoltaic generators, transient stability, variable parameter control, power–voltage evolution curve
Citation
He H, Xia Y, Wei W and Yang P (2022) Transient Stability Analysis and Control of Distributed Photovoltaic Generators in the DC Distribution Network. Front. Energy Res. 10:875654. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.875654
Received
14 February 2022
Accepted
14 March 2022
Published
12 April 2022
Volume
10 - 2022
Edited by
Ariya Sangwongwanich, Aalborg University, Denmark
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Rui Wang, Northeastern University, China
Minghao Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
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