CONTROL OF HYBRID SYSTEMS GENERATION CONVERTERS FOR IMPROVING TRANSIENT STABILITY.
Grid codes, transient stability; control strategies, distributed generation, inverters, synchronous machines.
In this work, a fault ride through control scheme for inverters that interface distributed generation sources with a power grid that contains conventional synchronous generators is developed and implemented. With the proposed control strategy, the inverter performs its usual tasks when the grid is under normal operating conditions. However, when the grid experiences a fault, the inverters start to operate so that the active powers delivered by the conventional synchronous generators are maintained as close as possible to the pre-fault values, in order to reduce the machines acceleration and system frequency oscillations. Simulations of the proposed control scheme are performed in MATLAB, considering large PV plants connected to the IEEE 9 bus test system. The proposed control strategy is further evaluated through experimental results performed in a prototype consisting of a synchronous generator and a distributed generation converter connected to the utility power grid. The results obtained show that, in comparison with using the grid codes requisites of several countries, the application of the proposed control strategy leads to the best transient stability performance.