This book serves as a reference book for senior undergraduate and graduate students
in power engineering programs, practicing engineers who deal with grid integration
and operation of DER systems, design engineers, and researchers in the areas of
electric power generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization. The book does
not cover implementation details of controllers; however, it contains adequate details
for system analysts and control designers and
describes various functions that theVSCcan perform in an electric power system,
introduces different classes of applications of the VSC in electric power systems,
provides a systematic approach to modeling a VSC-based system with respect
to its class of application,
presents a comprehensive and detailed control design approach for each class of
applications, and
illustrates the control design procedures and evaluates the performance, based
on digital computer time-domain simulation studies.
The text is organized in 13 chapters. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the
most commonly used electronic switches and converter configurations in the power
system. The rest of the book is divided into two parts. The first part, Chapters 2–10,
provides theory and presents fundamental modeling and design methodologies. The
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second part, Chapters 11–13, covers applications of theory and design methodologies,
through three selected application cases: the static compensator (STATCOM), the
forced-commutated back-to-back HVDC converter system, and the variable-speed
wind-power systems based on the doubly fed asynchronous generator. The second
part could have included more application varieties. However, only three application
cases have been presented to highlight the main concepts, within a limited number
of pages. The PSCAD/EMTDC software package has been used to generate most of
the time-domain simulation results in the text. We would like to emphasize that the
main purpose of the numerical examples in this book is to highlight the concepts and
design methodologies. As such, the numerical values of some parameters may not be
fully consistent with the values typically adopted for specific applications. |