Augmented Sequence Impedance Networks of Grid-tied Voltage Source Converter for Stability Analysis

TL;DR

This paper introduces Augmented Sequence Impedance Networks (ASIN) for simplified stability analysis of grid-tied VSC systems, transforming complex MIMO impedance interactions into decoupled SISO systems for easier application of the Argument principle.

Contribution

It proposes a novel method to decouple coupled sequence impedances into two independent SISO systems, simplifying stability analysis of grid-tied VSCs.

Findings

ASIN effectively decouples impedance interactions.

Stability analysis on ASIN matches numerical and time domain results.

Method reduces analysis complexity for grid-tied VSC systems.

Abstract

Impedance-based stability analysis is appealing in the case of Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) systems. However, in the case of grid-tied voltage source converter (VSC) systems, dq impedances of source and load (VSC) subsystems are typically Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems in which case the Generalized Nyquist Criterion (GNC) is required for analyzing the closed loop stability, which increases the complexity of the analysis. This paper explores further the coupling between positive and negative sequence impedances, in particular the dependency and bindings between them. It shows that the couplings in each subsystem can be compounded into two non-coupled sequence impedances if the source and load subsystems are viewed as an integrated system instead of as two separate subsystems. Therefore, two decoupled SISO systems are obtained which are defined as Augmented Sequence Impedance Networks (ASIN). The stability analysis of the closed loop system is performed directly on the ASIN with the principal of Argument. Both numerical and time domain verifications are presented.