Abstract:
Because of grid faults and generator faults disturbance will be created in the
supply voltage .In case of unbalanced voltage source, the converters suffer
from the problems of power oscillations and over current problems. These
problems can be solved by controlling the positive and negative sequence
currents. In this paper, a new control strategy is established by utilising the
zero sequence components to enhance the power control ability. The paper
explains how to use the zero sequence current controls and circuit topologies
and concludes with operation with better performance in the delivered power and
the load current when the supply voltage unbalanced.
Index: dc-ac converters,
zero sequence converter, unbalanced supply voltage
I.Introduction
Power Electronics plays a vital role in the power control and conditioning.
In so many applications of power electronics like solar energy , wind
generation, in speed control of dc motor and renewable energy sources. The power
control and conditioning can be acheieved by power electronic components i.e.,
converters[1], [2]. A conventional dc–ac
voltage source converter is shown in fig which is used to convert the dc
voltage to three phase AC sources generating units and depending upon the loads
and applications[3]–[5].
Since
the power electronics are very important
and essential in the energy conversion technology , the failures and faults may
introduce the serious problems in
converters .There is a need to increase the reliability of power
electronic converters in many applications to withstand failures and faults [6]–[13].
A good example can be seen in the wind power application, where both the total
installed capacity and individual capacity of the power conversion system are
relatively
high. The sudden
disconnection of the power converter may cause significant impacts on the grid
stability and also on the high cost for maintenance/repair [1].
Because of disturbances and faults
the ac source from the converters becomes distorted, These unbalanced ac
voltage is a big challenge to control the converter operation [2],[14] .Existing
control methods which can regulate both
the positive and negative sequence are introduced to handle these disturbances[2], [16]–[21].The
performance by these methods are up to some extent only in distorted power oscillations and distorted load current
oscillations and considering cost of the power converter design.
This paper
presents the improvement in power control limits of a three phase dc-ac
converter system for unbalanced ac source. A new approach has been implemented
to resolve the issues and enhance the power control capability.
This new approach
is utilising the zero sequence components in the converters under other
applications like where the unbalanced ac source is to be presented; in that
way basic principle and feasibility are mainly focussed.
II. LIMITATIONS OF A CONVERTER SYSTEM
To analyse the performance of the power
electronic converter , a unbalanced ac source is introduced firstly .the distorted three phase ac voltage is
shown in fig.3 ,the phasor diagram ,assumed that the phase B fault occurred
with voltage dip on the phase A of the ac source.
According to
[2] and [19], any distorted three-phase voltage can be expressed by the sum of
components in the positive sequence, negative sequence, and zero sequence. For
simplicity of analysis, only the components with the fundamental frequency are
considered in this paper, however, it is also possible to extend
the analysis to higher order harmonics. The distorted
three-phase ac source voltage in Fig. 3 can be represented by
where V +, V −, and V0 are the voltage amplitude in the positive,
negative, and zero sequence, respectively. And ϕ+, ϕ−, and ϕ0 represent the initial phase angles in the
positive sequence, negative sequence, and zero sequence, respectively. The
predefined voltage dip as indicated in
Fig. 3
should contain voltage components in all the three sequences [2], [11].
Because there are only three wires and a
common neutral point in the windings of the ac source, the currents flowing in
the three phases do not contain zero-sequence components. As a result, the
three-phase load current controlled by the converter can be written as
With the voltage of the ac source in (1) and the current
controlled by the converter in (2), the instantaneous real power p and the imaginary power q in αβ coordinate, as well as the real power p0 in the zero
coordinate can be calculated .