Synchronverters: Inverters That Mimic Synchronous Generators

By Qing-Chang Zhong, George Weiss. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2011

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Transient Angle Stability of Virtual Synchronous Generators Using Lyapunov’s Direct Method (2019, background): “Compared with droop-controlled inverters, virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) can compensate the loss of inertia and the rotation reserve capacity of the system by mimicking the output characteristics of RSGs [6], [7].”
Fast Frequency Response From Energy Storage Systems—A Review of Grid Standards, Projects and Technical Issues (2020, methodology): “Synchronverter control [55] implements a swing equation based inertia emulation control and a reactive power-voltage droop to generate the angle and voltage amplitude references respectively.”
Transient Stability of Voltage-Source Converters With Grid-Forming Control: A Design-Oriented Study (2020, background): “or an energy storage unit [16], [17] connected to the dc-link.”
Enhanced Virtual Synchronous Generator Control for Parallel Inverters in Microgrids (2017, background): “parallel operation, droop characteristics are also emulated in some VSG control schemes [12], [14], [20], [21].”
A Generalized Droop Control for Grid-Supporting Inverter Based on Comparison Between Traditional Droop Control and Virtual Synchronous Generator Control (2019, background): “, kd · f(s) · dω dt [18], Dp · (θ̇ − θ̇n ) [26], D · (ω − ωg ) [2], and D · (ω − ω0) [30].”
Foundations and Challenges of Low-Inertia Systems (Invited Paper) (2018, methodology): “This analogy between synchronous generators and CIG and the duality of DC voltage and mechanical frequency has been widely discussed in recent years [9], [24], [81], [82] and explicitly used for converter control in [83]–[87].”
Overview of Power Management Strategies of Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid (2015, neutral): “The synchronverter concept proposed in [106] and”
Frequency Stability of Synchronous Machines and Grid-Forming Power Converters (2020, background): “In this work, we consider the frequency dynamics induced by the synchronverter [8]”
Transient Stability Analysis and Control Design of Droop-Controlled Voltage Source Converters Considering Current Limitation (2019, background): “dynamics of synchronous generators in the VSC [8].”
Power System Stability With a High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources (2023, background): “A concept related to GFM is virtual synchronous generator (VSG), which aims at an exact replication of synchronous generators by inverters [43].”
Equivalence of Virtual Synchronous Machines and Frequency-Droops for Converter-Based MicroGrids (2014, result): “Later, the VSM concept for emulating the behavior of synchronous machines (SMs) by controlling voltage source converters (VSCs) has been pursued by several other authors [2]–[4].”