Power-Hardware Design and Topologies of Converter-Based Grid Emulators for Wind Turbines

Zejie Li; Xiongfei Wang; Fangzhou Zhao; Stig Munk-Nielsen; Martin Geske; Rayk  Grune; Daniel Bo Rønnest Andersen; Miguel Garnelo Rodriguez

doi:10.1109/JESTPE.2023.3302808

Power-Hardware Design and Topologies of Converter-Based Grid Emulators for Wind Turbines

Zejie Li, Xiongfei Wang^*, Fangzhou Zhao, Stig Munk-Nielsen, Martin Geske, Rayk Grune, Daniel Bo Rønnest Andersen, Miguel Garnelo Rodriguez

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Power-electronic-based grid emulators (GEs) emerge as a favorable method for testing grid-code compliances of wind turbines (WTs), thanks to their full controllability and improved efficiency. To accommodate the increasing power and voltage levels of WTs, scalability becomes a critical requirement for the topologies of converter-based GEs. This article identifies first the power rating of future GEs based on the system architecture and the evolution of WTs, followed by evaluating converter topologies of GEs for high scalability. Design considerations of power semiconductor devices, step-up transformers, dc chopper, and dc capacitors are also discussed for existing and prospective GEs.

Original language	English
Journal	I E E E Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Volume	11
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	5001-5017
Number of pages	17
ISSN	2168-6785
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTPE.2023.3302808
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2023

Keywords

Germanium
Grid emulators
Inverters
Power harmonic filters
Scalability
Topology
Transformers
Voltage
converter topologies
grid-code compliance
power hardware
testing

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