A Unified Model of Voltage-Controlled Inverter for Transient Angle Stability Analysis

The safety of grid-connected voltage-controlled inverter is threatened by transient angle instability due to fault. The impact of different active power control (APC) and reactive power control (RPC) on the inverter's transient angle stability hasn't been fully investigated. To fill this gap, firstly, a unified model of the voltage-controlled inverter considering different APC and RPC is put forward. Based on the proposed unified model, the effect of different APC and RPC loops on the inverter's transient angle stability are qualitatively analyzed by using equal area criterion (EAC). Then, the TS multimodeling method which is based on the Lyapunov function is applied to evaluate the effect of control parameters on the inverter's transient angle stability quantificationally. Finally, the above analysis is verified based on an experiment. It is found that lowering inertia improves the inverter's global stability but decreases the inverter's first swing stability. Transient stability of the inverter can be improved by increasing damping component of the inverter. Transient angle stability of the inverter is influenced by the RPC loop. With the increase of the output voltage of the RPC loop, reference reactive power, and output voltage of the inverter, transient angle stability of the inverter can be improved.

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This paper investigates the transient angle stability of grid-connected voltage-controlled inverters and finds that lowering inertia improves the overall stability of the inverter, increasing the damping component enhances its transient stability, and the transient angle stability is influenced by the reactive power control loop (RPC).