GRID FORMING INVERTER POWER CONTROL
ABSTRACT
The trend of transforming the supply structure of renewable energy is gradually increasing.
Renewable energy sources based on power electronic equipment are rapidly replacing existing
synchronous generators (SGs). Renewable energy sources, including wind turbine, solar photovoltaic’s (PV),
and energy storage system (ESS), are also called inverter-based resources (IBRs), and these resources are
already being used in our daily lives to cover a considerable proportion of electricity demand. Researchers
are trying to make the power grid more stable by using new devices called grid- forming inverters (GFMs),
which act like traditional power generators.
These GFMs help stabilize the grid and handle faults, but they can become unstable when the grid’s
short circuit ratio (SCR) is high. In this project, the researchers created a mathematical model of a GFM and
its interaction with the grid’s SCR. Will design and develop a new control method for GFMs to keep the grid
stable during small and large disturbances. This may compare with existing methods. The simulations result
will carried out in MATLAB /Simulation.
INDEX TERMS: Grid-forming inverter (GFM), active power control (APC), single input single output (SISO)
modelling, Nyquist stability, short circuit ratio (SCR), droop, virtual synchronous machine (VSM), system
frequency response (SFR).
PROJECT GUIDE: BY BATCH NO: 7
[Link] [Link] KUMAR (22K95A0238)-
(PROFESSOR) [Link] (22K95A0249)-
[Link] KRISHNA (22K95A0223)-
[Link] (22K95A0281)-
PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT
[Link] RAO [Link]
(PROFESSOR) ([Link])
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