Energy Storage Science and Technology

   

Research on stability optimization of grid-forming energy storage converter based on virtual bus voltage control

WenBo YAN(), YunHui HUANG(), Dong WANG, JinRui TANG, KeLiang ZHOU   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Waterway Traffic Control ( Wuhan University of Technology), Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2023-11-15 Revised:2023-12-01
  • Contact: YunHui HUANG E-mail:574825652@qq.com;h.yunhui@whut.edu.cn

Abstract:

As the key equipment of high proportion of new energy connected to the power grid, the grid-forming energy storage converter has stability problems under strong power grid. Aiming at this problem, this paper proposes a stability optimization method of grid-forming energy storage converter based on virtual bus voltage control. Firstly, the state space small signal model of the grid-forming energy storage converter is established, and the characteristic root analysis method is used to obtain that the stability of the grid-forming energy storage converter becomes worse or even oscillates under the strong grid. Then, a stability optimization method based on virtual bus voltage control is proposed. By changing the position of the active power loop tracking the grid voltage phase, the grid impedance is equivalently improved, so as to improve the stability of the grid-forming energy storage converter system under the strong grid. Then, the eigenvalue change trend and stability improvement effect of the system before and after adding the virtual bus voltage control under different working conditions are analyzed. At the same time, the influence of the compensation coefficient k and the time constant t in the virtual bus voltage control parameters on the stability is also analyzed and the general parameter design range is given. Finally, the grid-forming model of the grid-forming energy storage converter is built in Matlab / Simulink for time-domain verification, and the hardware-in-the-loop experimental platform is further built for semi-physical verification. The verification results show that the stability of the grid-forming energy storage converter based on virtual bus voltage control is significantly improved under strong power grid

Key words: grid-following energy storage, small-signal stability, virtual bus voltage control, stability optimization

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