Control Strategy of MMC Battery Energy Storage System under Asymmetrical Grid Voltage Condition

A battery energy storage system using modular multilevel converter(MMC)as the interfacing converter could have several inherent advantages when compared with battery energy storage systems based on two-level inverter or cascaded H-bridge converter.It can manage the state-of-charges(SOCs)of all batteries to be equal to avoid the overcharge or over discharge of single battery.The inherent power exchange characteristics using circulating currents could increase the control flexibility and consequently improve the output quality and the internal regulation capability.This paper investigates the operational principle and control strategy of MMC battery energy storage system under unbalanced grid voltage condition,where key issues of system model and corresponding control methods are very different from those under the normal grid voltage condition.The injected de current control,SOC balancing control and circulating current control methods are fully discussed in this paper.Finally,the theoretical findings were verified through Matlab simulation and a scaled down experimental prototype.

Fault ride-through of renewable energy conversion systems during voltage recovery

Asymmetrical voltage swells during recovery of a short-circuit fault lead to fluctuations in the dc-link voltage of a renewable energy conversion system(RECS),and may induce reversed power flow and even trip the RECS. This paper studies characteristics of both typical causes resulting in the practical asymmetrical voltage swell and the voltage at the point of common coupling(PCC)during the fault recovery. As analyzed, the fault recovery process can be divided into two continuous periods in which different control strategies have to be applied. Also protective measures are necessary in the transient period of the process. Additionally, the asymmetrical high-voltage ride-through capability and the controllability criteria of the RECS are analyzed based on eliminating the fluctuations. Furthermore, an asymmetrical control scheme is proposed to maintain the controllability of the RECS and ride through the entire recovery process. As verified by the simulation, the scheme can promise the RECS to deal with the practical fault recovery period and mitigate the dc-link voltage fluctuations, which improves the reliability of the RECS and the power system.

Experimental and simulation research on the influence of voltage amplitude,frequency and carrier gas flow rate on the performance of FAIMS

A micro sensor chip of High-field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry(FAIMS) was designed and fabricated by inductively coupled plasma(ICP) etching on the both sides of silicon and double silicon-glass bonding,with dimensions of 18.8 mm×12.4 mm×1.2mm.The sample ions were created at ambient pressure by VUV lamp ion source,which was equipped with a 10.6 eV photo discharge lamp(λ=116.5 nm).The 2-pentanone was adopted to illustrate the influences of high-field rectangular asymmetric waveform voltage amplitude,frequency and carrier gas flow rate on the performance of FAIMS sensor chip.The experiment results showed that with the frequency or carrier gas flow rate increasing,or voltage amplitude decreasing,the FAIMS sensitivity increases,and that the resolution decreases with the increasing of the frequency or flow rate.The FAIMS simulation results based on the SIMION software was in agreement with the experimental results.The FAIMS detection sensitivity experiment showed that the FAIMS sensor chip can detect positive and negative ions simultaneously,and has detection sensitivity as low as 0.1 ppm for acetic acid.