An Extended Admittance Modeling Method with Synchronization Node for Stability Assessment of Converters-Interlinked System

TL;DR

This paper introduces an extended admittance modeling method with a synchronization node to improve the stability assessment of converters-interlinked systems by providing more intuitive insights into synchronization dynamics.

Contribution

It proposes a novel extended impedance model and a frequency-domain modal analysis approach that explicitly characterizes synchronization loops for better stability evaluation.

Findings

Validated through frequency scanning and time domain simulations

Enhanced understanding of synchronization loop participation in oscillations

Improved stability assessment accuracy for converters-interlinked systems

Abstract

Diverse synchronization dynamics within the grid-following (GFL)/grid-forming (GFM) converters-interlinked system are prone to induce oscillatory instabilities. To quantify their stability influences, frequency-domain modal analysis (FMA) method based on the impedance network can serve as a good reference. However, since the adopted impedance network only retains electrical nodes, oscillation information provided by the FMA method is mainly concerned with circuits (e.g., participation of nodes), which is not convenient for an intuitive probe of sync loops' participations. To address this issue, this paper proposes an extended admittance modeling method for FMA, the basis of which is the explicit characterization of GFL/GFM sync loops. First, a four-port extended impedance model (EIM) of converter with one virtual sync node is proposed. Its resulting extended impedance network (EIN) is formed for the converters-interlinked system. Then, the FMA method can be directly applied to those virtual sync nodes/branches, so as to realize an intuitive evaluation of sync dynamics' effects on oscillations. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by the frequency scanning and time domain simulations in a typical point-to-point HVDC system.