An Overview of Grid-Forming Control for Wind Turbine Converters

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Abstract

Wind turbine converters (WTCs) with grid forming (GFM) control can contribute to voltage and frequency support in the power system, by emulating synchronous machine (SM) dynamics, provided that there are sufficient buffers. Over the past few years, several control algorithms have been developed for the GFM operation of WTCs. This article investigates the state-of-the-art in the field of GFM control algorithms for WTCs, where the principle of each control algorithm is discussed in detail, and corresponding characteristics are summarized. Comparison results with respect to voltage build-up strategies, the synchronization of GFM WTCs, the interaction attenuation, the virtual inertia realization and the complexity of individual GFM algorithm are given in a table, which leads to the conclusion that mitigation of oscillations among WTCs, appropriate inertia emulation, and coordination with energy storage systems need to be further investigated in the future GFM WTCs.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Number of pages6
PublisherIEEE Communications Society
Publication date16 Oct 2021
Pages1-6
Article number9589838
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-0256-9
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-3554-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Oct 2021
EventIECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: 13 Oct 202116 Oct 2021

Conference

ConferenceIECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
LocationToronto, ON, Canada
Period13/10/202116/10/2021
SeriesProceedings of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
ISSN1553-572X

Keywords

  • Heuristic algorithms
  • Wind speed
  • Emulation
  • Power system dynamics
  • Wind power generation
  • Wind turbines
  • Synchronization

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