This paper demonstrates the controlling abilities of a large PV-farm as a Solar-PV inverter for mitigating the chaotic electrical,electromechanical,and torsional oscillations including Subsynchronous resonance in a tu...This paper demonstrates the controlling abilities of a large PV-farm as a Solar-PV inverter for mitigating the chaotic electrical,electromechanical,and torsional oscillations including Subsynchronous resonance in a turbogenerator-based power system.The oscillations include deviations in the machine speed,rotor angle,voltage fluctuations(lead-ing to voltage collapse),and torsional modes.During the night with no solar power generation,the PV-plant switches to PV-STATCOM mode and works as a Solar-PV inverter at its full capacity to attenuate the oscillations.During full sun in the daytime,on any fault detection,the PV-plant responds instantly and stops generating power to work as a Solar-PV inverter.The PV-farm operates in the same mode until the oscillations are fully alleviated.This paper mani-fests the control of the DC-link capacitor voltage of the Solar-PV inverter with a bacterial foraging optimization-based intelligent maximum power point tracking controller for the optimal control of active and reactive power.Kundur’s multi-machine model aggregated with PV-plant is modeled in the Matlab/Simulink environment to examine the rotor swing deviations with associated shaft segments.The results for different test cases of interest demonstrate the posi-tive outcomes of deploying large PV-farms as a smart PV-STATCOM for controlling power system oscillations.展开更多
文摘This paper demonstrates the controlling abilities of a large PV-farm as a Solar-PV inverter for mitigating the chaotic electrical,electromechanical,and torsional oscillations including Subsynchronous resonance in a turbogenerator-based power system.The oscillations include deviations in the machine speed,rotor angle,voltage fluctuations(lead-ing to voltage collapse),and torsional modes.During the night with no solar power generation,the PV-plant switches to PV-STATCOM mode and works as a Solar-PV inverter at its full capacity to attenuate the oscillations.During full sun in the daytime,on any fault detection,the PV-plant responds instantly and stops generating power to work as a Solar-PV inverter.The PV-farm operates in the same mode until the oscillations are fully alleviated.This paper mani-fests the control of the DC-link capacitor voltage of the Solar-PV inverter with a bacterial foraging optimization-based intelligent maximum power point tracking controller for the optimal control of active and reactive power.Kundur’s multi-machine model aggregated with PV-plant is modeled in the Matlab/Simulink environment to examine the rotor swing deviations with associated shaft segments.The results for different test cases of interest demonstrate the posi-tive outcomes of deploying large PV-farms as a smart PV-STATCOM for controlling power system oscillations.