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Castro, Acha - 2020 - On The Dynamic Modeling of Marine VSC-HVDC Power Grids Including Offshore Wind Farms-Annotated
Castro, Acha - 2020 - On The Dynamic Modeling of Marine VSC-HVDC Power Grids Including Offshore Wind Farms-Annotated
Abstract—This article presents a new and comprehensive model- premier onshore wind resource sites have already been used,
ing framework to carry out system-wide dynamic studies of DFIG- after more than 30 years of sustained wind farm construction and
based wind farms embedded in multi-terminal VSC-HVDC power commissioning, and the current push is for offshore wind farms.
grids. Contrary to existing, well-developed simulation frameworks
for similar studies, using electromagnetic transient (EMT) solu- This is particularly the case of countries with access to the North
tions, this is an RMS-type formulation which maintains a high- Sea, the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea. The forecast is that the
degree of fidelity while enabling much faster steady-state and current estimated wind power production in the North Sea would
dynamic simulations than what it is possible to achieve with EMT increase between 7 to 15-fold by 2040 [2]. The UK alone has five
simulators. The new RMS modeling framework includes AC/DC wind farm developments in the North Sea, namely, Dogger Bank,
power grids of an arbitrary size, topology and number of offshore
VSC-connected wind farms. A simulation tool with such a high Hornsea, Norfolk, Firth of Forth and Moray Firth, with a total
degree of modeling versatility and numerical efficiency does not combined capacity of 18 GW. For instance, the Dogger Bank,
currently exist elsewhere. This has required the development, using the largest wind farm development, will have 1800 5-MW wind
first principles, of the RMS model of a DFIG with explicit repre- turbines [3]. The wind turbine technology selected for this site
sentation of all the dynamic effects relevant for dynamic problems is the so-called doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). These
of the electromechanical type as opposed to the study of very fast
EMT phenomena. All the control functions and parameters of the generators have continued to evolve rapidly, almost doubling the
rotor-side converter, the grid-side converter and the DC link, are 5 MW capacity; the largest commercial DFIG wind turbine has
accounted for in the new DFIG model. The prowess of the new reached the 9.5 MW capacity [4].
formulation is demonstrated using a six-terminal VSC-HVDC link Existing and planned wind farms in the North Sea have
with two VSC-connected 200-MW wind farms. The impact of the shown that for installations laying more than 70 km away
wind farms’ operation on both the DC grid and the AC grids is
assessed. The fidelity of the output results of the new simulation from the shore; their connection to the mainland grid is more
tool is compared against those of the EMT-type model implemented advantageous using VSC-based DC transmission links than
in Simscape Electrical of Simulink. The article shows that they AC transmission. As the number and ratings of wind farms
favorably compare with each other, with differences inferior to in the North Sea increases, it would make sense to develop
3%. The computational efficiency of the new dynamic modeling a fully-fledged multi-terminal VSC-HVDC grid. One that will
framework for HVDC-connected wind farms is unassailable.
serve not only the energy evacuation of the wind industry but
Index Terms—AC/DC networks, DFIG, power system dynamic also the supply requirements of the oil and gas rigs installations.
simulations, VSC-HVDC grids, offshore wind farms.
Indeed, the same arguments apply to other world regions with
I. INTRODUCTION similar conditions as the North Sea, such as the Gulf of Mexico
or the North Pacific Ocean. The development of this technology
IND power today represents a sound commercial activ-
W ity, showing a spiral growth. At the end of 2017, there
were 539.123 GW of installed wind power capacity worldwide
is progressing well; by 2020 there will be two multi-terminal
VSC-HVDC links in existence, both in China: the Nan’ao-3T
±160 kV and the Zhangbei-4T ±500 kV. Nonetheless, very
[1]. In this electrical power industry sector, China leads the much engineering and technology development is still required
way with 188.392 GW, followed by USA with 89.077 GW before the multi-terminal VSC-HVDC becomes a worldwide
and Germany with 56.132 GW. In Europe as a whole, the reality.
Today, the DFIG technology is the most popular in both
Manuscript received May 25, 2019; revised November 4, 2019 and February onshore and offshore wind farm installations. Over the past
8, 2020; accepted March 10, 2020. Date of publication March 16, 2020; date of
current version September 18, 2020. This work was supported by the National decade, various technical problems arising from their massive
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) under program UNAM-DGAPA- integration into power grids have been identified and resolved.
PAPIIT-Project IA103919 (Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e However, there are still several outstanding issues that are yet
Innovación Tecnológica). Paper no. TSTE-00578-2019. (Corresponding author:
Luis M. Castro). to be dealt with satisfactorily, such as the reliable integration
Luis M. Castro is with the Department of Electrical Energy, National Au- of offshore wind farms that lie in deep waters, far away from
tonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad de México 06320, Mexico (e-mail: the shore [5]–[8]. Not surprisingly, great many research efforts
luismcastro@fi-b.unam.mx).
Enrique Acha is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tampere have been made toward developing advanced DFIG-based wind
University 33520, Tampere, Finland (e-mail: enrique.achadaza@tuni.fi). farm models to study their inherent electrical oscillations by
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this article are available online modal analysis [9], the mitigation of subsynchronous interac-
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TSTE.2020.2980970 tions in DFIG-based wind farms [10], and the operation of
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Fig. 4. Control loop for the reactive power control at stator’s terminals.
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wind speed Vw , the area swept by the rotor blades A, its aerody-
Fig. 6. (a) DC voltage controller of the B2B converter, (b) AC voltage
namic power coefficient Cp , the air density ρ, the tip-speed ratio
controller of the GSC. λ and the blade pitch angle β [27]. Moreover, there is a power
limitation strategy to prevent mechanical stress in the rotor shaft
when the wind speed surpasses the rated speed. The mechanical
required to operate [16], [17], as shown in Fig. 4. On the other power is reduced using a controller, which acts upon the blade
hand, the control loop shown in Fig. 5 drives the DFIG to operate pitch angle, β, as shown in Fig. 7(a). One way to design the pitch
at the maximum power extraction point (MPT). This controller angle controller calls for the monitoring of the electrical power
regulates the rotor voltage vqr in accordance with changes in the output of the DFIG, Pe = Pgs − Pg , to bring it back within
actual rotor speed ω m . limits by changing β. On the other hand, a power optimization
Grid-side converter controllers and DC link dynamics: when strategy is implemented in the DFIG which focuses on driving
changes occur in the DC link, the capacitor undergoes charg- the wind generator to operate at its optimum rotational speed
ing/discharging stages, which impacts on its DC voltage. Apply- and torque, Tref = Pm,opt /ωm,opt , as shown in Fig. 7(b).
ing Kirchhoff’s law to the DC link shown in Fig. 2, the following Wound-rotor induction generator model: The voltage equa-
relationship holds: ic = idcr − idcg . By equating this expression tions that govern the WRIG’s dynamic behavior are obtained
and that of the capacitor’s current, yields: by applying Kirchhoff’s and Faraday’s laws as well as Park’s
transformation and its third-order dynamic model is expressed
dEDC idcr − idcg
= (12) as [26],
dt Cdc
de d (ωs − ωm ) Lr ω s Lm
where the current idcr is computed as idcr = −P0r /Edc , with T0 = ωs Lm iqr + eq − vqr (14)
dt Rr Rr
P0r taken from (5). Substituting this expression into (12), the
DC link voltage dynamics in the B2B converter are: de q (ωs − ωm ) Lr ω s Lm
T0 = −ωs Lm idr − ed + vdr (15)
dt Rr Rr
dEDC 1 P0r
= − − idcg (13) dωm Te − Tm
dt CDC EDC = (16)
dt 2H
As it is a standard practice, the GSC is responsible for con-
trolling the voltage at the DC link regardless of the amount where Rr , Lr and Lm are the rotor resistance, rotor inductance
and direction of the rotor active power Pgr . The DC voltage and magnetizing inductance, e´ is the per-unit e.m.f behind the
control is carried out by controlling the DC current entering the transient reactance, ωs is the electrical rotating sped of the stator,
GSC, idcg , as shown in Fig. 6(a), where Edc and Edcref are the ωm is the mechanical speed of the generator rotor, T’0 is the
actual and reference voltages, respectively. On the other hand, transient open-circuit time constant [s], Tm is the mechanical
the GSC also performs AC voltage regulation, therefore only torque, Te is the electromagnetic torque, H is the total inertia
one basic control loop for the modulation ratio of the GSC, mg , of the rotating mass, v is voltage, i is current, the subscripts d y
is required, as shown in Fig. 6(b), where Vk and Vkref are the q stand for the direct and quadrature axes, respectively, and the
(0) subscripts s y r represent quantities corresponding to the stator
actual and reference voltages, respectively, and mg is the initial,
and rotor, respectively.
steady-state value of the modulation ratio.
IV. VSC-CONNECTED DFIG-BASED WIND FARMS
B. Modeling of the Wind Turbine and the WRIG
For completeness, the modeling of its wind turbine and its A. Steady-State Operating Conditions of Each DFIG
controls and the wound rotor induction generator, are briefly The steady-state model of the DFIG may be directly derived
discussed in this section. from the algebraic power equations and differential equations
Wind turbine and its basic controls: the conversion of the (with the dynamic terms set to zero) of the WRIG (14)–(16)
kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical power is made which combine well with those of the B2B converter (2)–(7),
by the wind turbine’s rotor and may be computed by Pm = keeping in mind that the RSC controllers ensure that the DFIG
1/2ρCp (c1 . . . c9 , λ, β)AVw3 , which is mainly a function of the operates at Qgsref and Tref . If the DFIG is connected to node
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k of the network, the iterative Newton-Raphson method may be Fe q = eq(t−Δt) + 0.5Δt ė q(t−Δt) − e q(t) − 0.5Δt ė q(t)
used to solve the set of nonlinear equations (17)–(27), whose (35)
solution may be used as the steady-state operating conditions
necessary for the ensuing dynamic simulations. Fωm = ωm(t−Δt) +0.5Δt ω̇m(t−Δt) − ωm(t) − 0.5Δt ω̇m(t)
(36)
ΔPk = Pgs − Pg − Pdk − Pkcal (17)
Fβaux = βaux (t−Δt) + 0.5Δt β̇aux(t−Δt)
ΔQk = Qgs − Qg − Qdk − Qcal
k (18)
− βaux (t) − 0.5Δt β̇aux(t) (37)
Δχ1 = ωs Lm iqr + (ωs − ωm ) Lr Rr−1 eq − ωs Lm Rr−1 vqr
(19) Fβ = β(t−Δt) + 0.5Δt β̇(t−Δt) − β(t) − 0.5Δt β̇(t) (38)
Δχ2 = −ωs Lm idr − (ωs − ωm ) Lr Rr−1 ed + ωs Lm Rr−1 vdr
Fidr,aux = idr,aux (t−Δt) + 0.5Δt i̇dr,aux(t−Δt)
(20)
ΔT = Tref − Te (21) − idr,aux (t) − 0.5Δt i̇dr,aux(t) (39)
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Fig. 9. (a) DC current controller and (b) modulation ratio controller of the
converter VSCWF.
Fig. 8. VSC connected DFIG-based wind farm coupled to a DC grid.
instantaneously, causing the wind farm’s AC power network to the VSCWF , Idc , aimed at keeping the frequency of its coupled
experience frequency deviations. wind farm at its nominal value, and the other control loop for
From the power system standpoint, the VSCW F must provide exerting AC voltage control using the modulation ratio, as shown
the angular reference for all the nodal voltage phase angles in Figs. 9(a) and 9(b), respectively.
of the wind farm AC power network, i.e., φwf = 0, during In connection with Fig. 8, the overall mismatch equations of
steady-state. For the dynamic operating regime, the difference the voltage source converter VSCW F , including those resulting
between the DC power entering the inverter, Edc Idc , and the from its ancillary components, are given by (50)–(59). The
power flowing out of the converter towards its AC terminals, P0v , discretized differential equations of the voltage dynamics of Cdc
will yield frequency deviations in the wind farm. Indeed, P0v and current dynamics of Ldc of VSCW F are given in (50)–(51),
corresponds to the total power generated by the wind generators respectively. Equations (52)–(55) are obtained by discretizing
minus the power losses produced by the wind farm AC power the differential equations emerging from the control loops shown
network. The angular frequency ωwf and the angle φwf of the in Fig. 9 and from (48), respectively. Finally, equations (56)–(59)
converter may be dynamically computed as stand for the active and reactive power mismatch equations at
nodes v and k, respectively.
dωwf ω0
(a) = (Edc Idc − P0v ) , FEdc = Edc(t−Δt) + 0.5ΔtĖdc(t−Δt)
dt 2Hvsc
dφwf − Edc( t) − 0.5ΔtĖdc(t) (50)
(b) = ωwf − ω0 (48)
dt
where ω0 = 2πfnom and fnom is the nominal frequency of FIx = Ix(t−Δt) + 0.5ΔtI˙x(t−Δt) − Ix( t) − 0.5ΔtI˙x(t)
the wind farm. Notice that the angle φwf and the angular (51)
speed ωwf are also the reference signals for the wind farm
AC power grid. The equivalent inertia constant of the converter Fdma = dma(t−Δt) + 0.5Δtdṁa(t−Δt)
Hvsc [s] may be estimated from the electrostatic and electro-
− dma(t) − 0.5Δtdṁa(t) (52)
magnetic energies stored in the capacitor, WC = 1/2; Cdc E02 ,
and inductor, WL = 1/2; Ldc I02 , coupled to its DC bus. This FIdcaux = Idcaux(t−Δt) + 0.5ΔtI˙dcaux(t−Δt)
fictitious inertia constant of the VSCW F may be calculated
by Hvsc = (WC + WL )/Snom [18], where E0 and I0 are the − Idcaux(t) − 0.5ΔtI˙dcaux(t) (53)
nominal voltage and current of the capacitor and inductor, re-
spectively, whereas Snom is the rated apparent power of the Fφwf = φwf (t−Δt) + 0.5Δtφ̇wf (t−Δt)
converter. This takes an approximate value of Hvsc ≈ 5 ms,
which is much smaller than the inertia featured by conventional − φwf (t) − 0.5Δtφ̇wf (t) (54)
rotating machines (∼5 s). The power flowing out of the converter
Fωwf = ωwf (t−Δt) + 0.5Δtω̇wf (t−Δt)
towards its AC terminals, is computed as,
P0v = k 2 m2a Edc
2
G − kma Vv Edc [G cos (φwf − θv ) − ωwf ( t) − 0.5Δtω̇wf (t) (55)
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TABLE III
STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS OF THE SIX-TERMINAL VSC-BASED HVDC NETWORK
Fig. 11. Validation of the proposed approach - Study case I. (a) Power entering the VSCs; (b) DC grid voltages; (c) Modulation ratios; (d) Mechanical torque;
(e) Output power by the wind farms.
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Fig. 13. Dynamic behavior of the HVDC system – Study case III.
Fig. 12. Dynamic behavior of the HVDC system – Study case II.
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