Power Electronics-Enabled Autonomous Power Systems

Next Generation Smart Grids

Qing-Chang Zhong

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781118803523
• eBook ISBN: 9781118803493
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Power Resources
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Power systems worldwide are going through a paradigm shift from centralized generation to distributed generation. This book presents the SYNDEM (i.e., synchronized and democratized) grid architecture and its technical routes to harmonize the integration of renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, storage systems, and flexible loads, with the synchronization mechanism of synchronous machines, to enable autonomous operation of power systems, and to promote energy freedom. This is a game changer for the grid. It is the sort of breakthrough — like the touch screen in smart phones — that helps to push an industry from one era to the next, as reported by Keith Schneider, a New York Times correspondent since 1982. This book contains an introductory chapter and additional 24 chapters in five parts: Theoretical Framework, First-Generation VSM (virtual synchronous machines), Second-Generation VSM, Third-Generation VSM, and Case Studies. Most of the chapters include experimental results.

As the first book of its kind for power electronics-enabled autonomous power systems, it

• introduces a holistic architecture applicable to both large and small power systems, including aircraft power systems, ship power systems, microgrids, and supergrids
• provides latest research to address the unprecedented challenges faced by power systems and to enhance grid stability, reliability, security, resiliency, and sustainability
• demonstrates how future power systems achieve harmonious interaction, prevent local faults from cascading into wide-area blackouts, and operate autonomously with minimized cyber-attacks
• highlights the significance of the SYNDEM concept for power systems and beyond

Power Electronics-Enabled Autonomous Power Systems is an excellent book for researchers, engineers, and students involved in energy and power systems, electrical and control engineering, and power electronics. The SYNDEM theoretical framework chapter is also suitable for policy makers, legislators, entrepreneurs, commissioners of utility commissions, energy and environmental agency staff, utility personnel, investors, consultants, and attorneys.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Synchronized and Democratized (SYNDEM) Smart Grid
• Chapter 3 Ghost Power Theory
• Chapter 4 Synchronverter Based Generation
• Chapter 5 Synchronverter Based Loads
• Chapter 6 Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) Based Wind Turbines
• Chapter 7 Synchronverter Based AC Ward Leonard Drive Systems
• Chapter 8 Synchronverter without a Dedicated Synchronization Unit
• Chapter 9 Synchronverter Based Loads without a Dedicated Synchronisation Unit
• Chapter 10 Control of a DFIG Based Wind Turbine as a VSG (DFIG‐VSG)
• Chapter 11 Synchronverter Based Transformerless Photovoltaic Systems
• Chapter 12 Synchronverter Based STATCOM without an Dedicated Synchronization Unit
• Chapter 13 Synchronverters with Bounded Frequency and Voltage
• Chapter 14 Virtual Inertia, Virtual Damping, and Fault Ride‐through
• Chapter 15 Synchronization Mechanism of Droop Control
• Chapter 16 Robust Droop Control
• Chapter 17 Universal Droop Control
• Chapter 18 Self‐synchronized Universal Droop Controller
• Chapter 19 Droop‐Controlled Loads for Continuous Demand Response
• Chapter 20 Current‐limiting Universal Droop Controller
• Chapter 21 Cybersync Machines
• Chapter 22 A Single‐node System
• Chapter 23 A 100% Power Electronics Based SYNDEM Smart Grid Testbed
• Chapter 24 A Home Grid
• Chapter 25 Texas Panhandle Wind Power System
• Bibliography
• Index
• EULA