Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering ›› 2017, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (3): 25-33.

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An Optimal Coordination Control Strategy of Micro-Grid Inverter and Energy Storage Based on Variable Virtual Inertia and Damping of VSG

Xing Zhang*, Fubin Mao, Haizhen Xu, Fang Liu, Ming Li   

  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • Online:2017-09-25 Published:2019-11-01
  • Contact: * E-mail: honglf@ustc.edu.cn.
  • About author:Xing Zhang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electric engineering and automation from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in1984, 1990, and 2003, respectively. In 1984, he joined the School of Electric Engineering and Automation, Hefei University of Technology, where he is currently a Professor and is also at the Photovoltaic Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education. He is a senior member of IEEE, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He has been cooperating with the Sun grow Power Supply Co., Ltd for a long time in the area of power electronics. His main research interests include photovoltaic generation technologies, wind power generation technologies, and distributed generation system. Fubin Mao, was born in Shandong, China, in 1990. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electric engineering and automation from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. From May 2016, he served as an engineer at Anhui Electric Power Design Institute, CEEC. His research interests include control of VSG converters, photovoltaic generation technologies and micro-grid system. Haizhen Xu received the B.S. degrees in electric engineering and automation from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2010. She is currently working toward the Ph. D. degree in electric engineering and automation in Hefei University of Technology. Her current research interests include control of VSG converters, parallel converter systems, and photovoltaic generation technologies. Fang Liu received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, China, in 2005, 2008 and 2015, respectively. In 2015, she joined the teaching faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, HFUT. From April. 2008 to Aug. 2009, she served as a software engineer at EMERSON network (Xi’an) Power. From Oct. 2011 to Oct.2012, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the Lab of WEMPEC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, America. Her research interests include the PV generation system, storage energy system, Micgrid system, energy management system, and grid-tied converters. [@[fund_en]]

Abstract: The virtual inertia and virtual damping affect both the dynamic stability of the virtual synchronous generator(VSG) and the configuration of energy storage, but there is a conflict between them while selecting the virtual inertia and virtual damping. An optimal coordination control strategy of micro-grid inverter and energy storage based on variable virtual inertia and damping is proposed to mitigate this conflict. With the integrated optimal constraint of the VSG frequency variation and the energy storage capacity, the virtual inertia and damping of VSG are configured dynamically, adopting linear quadratic optimal control. It can suppress the oscillations of the active power and frequency to improve the stability of VSG and optimally configure the energy storage capacity of VSG simultaneously. The proposed strategy aims to improve the control performance of micro-grid inverter and the system economy. The simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the strategy.

Key words: Virtual synchronous generator (VSG), micro-grid, frequency variation, variable inertia and damping, optimal control