Power electronics-enabled autonomous power systems: next generation smart grids

"Today, the generation in power systems is dominated by synchronous generators, of which the inherent synchronisation mechanism is the underlying principle that holds a power system together. This book considerably facilitates engineers in the integration of renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, energy storage systems etc., and the operation of power systems from the fundamental level. In this book, this mechanism is adopted to develop the framework and a technical route for the next generation smart grid: Completely Autonomous Power Systems (CAPS). After giving some general introduction, the basics of power systems, synchronous machines and power electronics will be presented to pave the way for the introduction of the architecture of the next-generation smart grid. The book will show how to make inverters into power systems, to mimic conventional synchronous generators to possess the same synchronisation mechanism. These inverters are called synchronverters and this technol

Theoretical Framework. Synchronized and Democratized (SYNDEM) Smart Grid -- Ghost Power Theory -- 1G VSM: Synchronverters. Synchronverter Based Generation -- Synchronverter Based Loads -- Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) Based Wind Turbines -- Synchronverter Based AC Ward Leonard Drive Systems -- Synchronverter without a Dedicated Synchronization Unit -- Synchronverter Based Loads without a Dedicated Synchronisation Unit -- Control of a DFIG Based Wind Turbine as a VSG (DFIG-VSG) -- Synchronverter Based Transformerless Photovoltaic Systems -- Synchronverter Based STATCOM without an Dedicated Synchronization Unit -- Synchronverters with Bounded Frequency and Voltage -- Virtual Inertia, Virtual Damping, and Fault Ride-through -- VSM: Robust Droop Controller. Synchronization Mechanism of Droop Control -- Robust Droop Control -- Universal Droop Control -- Self-synchronized Universal Droop Controller -- Droop-Controlled Loads for Continuous Demand Response -- Current-limiting Universal Droop Controller -- 3G VSM: Cybersync Machines. Cybersync Machines -- Case Studies. A Single-node System -- A 100% Power Electronics Based SYNDEM Smart Grid Testbed -- A Home Grid…