A Project Dissertation

On

IMPROVED DIRECT POWER CONTROL FOR GRID

CONNECTED VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS
Submitted
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
In
POWER ELECTRONICS
by

JADI RAJAMANI 19474T7902

Under the guidance of

Mr. K.SRINIVAS
HOD & Assistant Professor

Affiliated to
Kakatiya University
Warangal.
ESTD:2009

Department of electrical and electronics engineering

WARANGAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Warangal-506 342(TS)
2019-2021
 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
WARANGAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
Oorugonda (V), Gudepd X road, Damera (M)
Warangal-506342(T.S)

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the dissertation work entitled “IMPROVED DIRECT

POWER CONTROL FOR GRID CONNECTED VOLTAGE SOURCE
CONVERTERS” carried out by JADI RAJAMANI (19474T7902) of M.Tech, Power
Electronics (2019-2021) in partial fulfillment of the master of M.Tech in the Warangal
Institute Of Technology And Science, Warangal.

Mr.K.SRINIVAS, Asst. Prof . Mr.K.SRINIVAS, Asst. Prof.

Project Guide Head of the Department
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I express my deep gratitude and sincere thanks to my guide Sri.K.SRINIVAS, Asst

professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department for allocating his Precious
time to my project work. I am deeply indebted to him for his logical guidance, Support and
encouragement throughout the project whenever I approach him and bringing it to a
successful completion.

I express my gratefulness to Chairman and members of the project evaluation

Committee for their critical evaluation and timely advices.

I owe my heartfelt thanks to Dr.N.SHYAM KUMAR GARU, Principal & Secretary

cum Correspondent.

I also thank for supporting staff of all laboratories, and I also thank to my parents for
their help in making my project a success.

JADI RAJAMANI
19474T7902
 DECLARATION

I declare that the Project entitled “IMPROVED DIRECT POWER CONTROL

FOR GRID CONNECTED VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS” submitted to the
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Warangal institute of technology &
science affiliated to KU Warangal in partial fulfillment for the degree of “Master of
Technology” in Power Electronics, entirely the original work which has been an
Endeavour of my effort. This project does not form a part of any other existing project.

JADI RAJAMANI
19474T7902
 ABSTRACT

A novel grid voltage modulated direct power control (GVM-DPC) strategy for a
grid-connected voltage source converter is proposed to control the instantaneous active and
reactive powers directly. The GVM-DPC method consists of a nonlinear GVM controller, a
conventional controller (feed forward and PI feedback), and nonlinear damping. The
proposed control strategy shows a relationship between DPC and voltage-oriented control
methods designed in d-q frame. The main advantage is that the proposed method makes the
system be a linear time-invariant system, which enables us to apply various control methods
easily. The GVM-DPC guarantees not only the convergence rate but also the steady-state
performance of the system. Moreover, it is ensured that the closed-loop system is
exponentially stable. Finally, simulation and experimental results using a 2.2-kVA VSC are
provided to validate the tracking performance and robustness of the proposed control
architecture. In addition, the total harmonic distortion of the current is 1.9% which is much
less than the requirement for grid operation.
 CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE NO.
LIST OF FIGURES i
CHAPTER-1
OVER VIEW OF THE PROJECT 1
1.1. Introduction 1
1.2. Literature Survey 4
1.3 Problem Formulation 6
1.4 Objective of Thesis 7
1.5 Organization of Thesis 7
CHAPTER-2
SELF-COMMUTATING CONVERSION 8
2.1 Voltage Source Conversion 8
2.1.1 Application to VSC 10
2.1.2 Application to VSC 10
2.2 Active and Reactive Power Coordination 16
2.2.1 Transient Stabilization of AC Systems 17
2.2.2 Harmonic Cross-Modulation Across the DC Link 17
2.3 Voltage Source Converters (VSC) 18
2.3.1 Individual Phase Control (IPC) Unit 19
2.3.2 Pulse Phase Control (PPC) Type 20
2.4 Functions of HVDC Controls 21
2.5 Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverter 23
2.6 Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverter 25
2.6.1 Advantages 25
2.6.2 Disadvantages 26
CHAPTER-3
COMMUTATION TYPES IN VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTER 27
CHAPTER-4
PROPOSED SYSTEM 35
4.1 Modeling and Control of the Grid-Connected Voltage-Source Converter 35
4.2 Small-Signal Modeling of the VSC Connected to Weak-Grid Systems 37
CHAPTER-5
SIMULATION RESULTS 39
CHAPTER-6
CONCLUSION FOR FUTURE WORKS 45
REFERENCES 46

LIST OF FIGURES
 PAGE NO.
Fig:2.1VSC: (a) Circuit diagram; (b) Voltage waveforms 9
Fig:2.2 Controller of a VSC 19
Fig:2.3 HVDC Control scheme 21
Fig. 2.4: Single phase voltage source inverter (CSI) of ASCI type. 23
Fig. 2.5: Voltage and voltage waveforms 24
Fig: 2.6. Three-phase Voltage Source Inverter (CSI) 25
Fig:3.1.(a) Three phase VSC topology, and
(b) its equivalent circuit in terms of two three phase half-wave circuits. 27
Fig 3.2.Commutation in upper half-bridge of VSC 29
Fig:3.3. All Commutation paths in VSC 30
Fig.4.1. Grid-connected VSC system. 36
Fig.4.2. Vector control of the grid-connected VSC. (a) SRF-PLL. 37
(b) Voltage and voltage control.
Fig: 4.3 Impact of the dead time on the performance of the voltage controller. 38
Fig:5.1 Simulation diagram of average model of the VSC at SCR=1.0. 39
Fig:5.2 Average model of the VSC at SCR=1.0 . (a) Active power. (b) PCC voltage. 40
(c) Injected voltage to the grid. (d) & (e) Compensation signals
Fig:5.3 Switching model of the VSC at SCR =1.0. (a) Injected voltage. (b) PCC voltage. 41
Fig:5.4 Influence of the proposed compensators on the VSC controllers 42
SCR=1.0(compensated system).
Fig:5.5 Influence of the proposed compensators on the VSC controllers 42
SCR=1.0(compensated system). (a) PLL response, (b) Voltage response
( d-channel), (c) Voltage response.
Fig:5.6 Influence of the proposed compensators on the VSC controllers 43
SCR=1.0(uncompensated system).
Fig:5.7 Influence of the proposed compensators on the VSC controllers 43
SCR=1.0(uncompensated system). (a) PLL response, (b) Voltage response
(d-channel), (c) Voltage response.