Adaptive Droop Control for Effective Power Sharing in Multi-Terminal DC (MTDC) Grids

Background The North sea, the Baltic and the seas around UK and Ireland has a huge potential for the offshore wind power generation. Similarly, the southern Europe and northern Africa has a large potential for the soalr power generation. It is proposed that a multi-terminal dc supergrid overlay could be devloped to facilitate GWs of power throughout the European Grid from the Offshore wind parks to the continental Europe.

Figure 1: HVDC supergrid proposal for Europe.

Though there are several HVDC projects around the world, almost all of them are two terminal, point-topoint HVDC projects. Multi-terminal HVDC interconnection using VSCs is a new concept. Already some projects like, the Kriegers Flak (the Baltic Sea) and the Tres Amigas (USA) are being developed. There are control and operational issues like the power sharing, and voltage regulation. Objective This project aims at developing and implementing the power sharing control in an MTDC transmission system under normal as well as disturbed operating conditions.

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Danfoss FC302 Inverter interface card dSpace System PC

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Figure 2 MTDC system with two WPPs connecting two AC Grids. (It is onlya representative figure. Other configurations may be chosen)

Contents Simulation model of a VSC based MTDC system Controller development for power sharing . Experimental demonstration of the whole system Resources Simulation MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, PSCAD/EMTDC, RTDS are available. Experimental demonstration using low power converters and dSpace control platforms is expected.
References:

[1] N. R. Chaudhuri, R. Majumder, and B. Chaudhuri, System Frequency Support Through Multi-Terminal DC (MTDC) Grids, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 347356, Feb. 2013. [2] N. R. Chaudhuri and B. Chaudhuri, Adaptive Droop Control for Effective Power Sharing in Multi -Terminal DC (MTDC) Grids, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 2129, Feb. 2013.

Contact person Sanjay K Chaudhary, (Assistant Prof.) skc@et.aau.dk Josep Maria Guerrero Zapata ( Prof.) joz@et.aau.dk

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Danfoss FC302 Inverter interface card

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Danfoss FC302 Inverter interface card