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  • Xingyun JIAO, Yong ZHAO, Lingyuan KONG, Zhongmei PAN, Jiandong DUAN, Zichen SONG
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 116-123.

    Integrated wind storage system, namely the wind power generation equipped with energy storage, has a black-start capability, which can be controlled to use the system as a black-start power source. On this basis, a black start program for the integrated wind storage system is developed based on a single wind turbine. Firstly, the energy storage device is started through grid-forming control, and to avoid the self-excitation generated by excitation inrush or resonance in the process of transformer input, the inertia link is added based on the original voltage-loop control to realize soft-start strategy. Then, the energy storage system establishes the AC frequency and voltage to realize restoration of the wind turbine generators and the loads. After the wind-storage integrated system is stably started, the electrical energy is transmitted to the 35 kV busbar through the main transformer and transmission line, to complete the black start process. Finally, a simulation model of the integrated wind-storage system is built on the PSCAD/EMTDC platform to validate the black-start scheme using the soft-start strategy, which keeps the voltage stable and the power balanced, and completes the start-up of the system, and at the same time suppresses the excitation inrush current effectively.

  • Ming LI, Pengpeng KANG, YAXIAER·Turgun, Yunping ZHENG, Chenglong HE
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 124-134.

    With the increasing proportion of new energy in power grid system, the domestic capacity of peak regulation, frequency regulation and voltage regulation is increasing, which greatly affects the flexibility of the power grid. In this regard, the focus is on analyzing and researching the related fields of grid-forming energy storage. Firstly, the technical characteristics of grid-following and grid-forming control are compared and analyzed, and the development status of grid-forming energy storage in Xinjiang is summarized. At the same time, a demonstration project of a grid-forming energy storage power station in Xinjiang is selected to test the low voltage ride-through, inertia response and damping characteristics, and a grid-connected test method for grid-forming energy storage power stations covering multi-level and full-scale scenarios is proposed. The test results can provide reference for grid-connected performance evaluation of grid-forming energy storage. Finally, the development of grid-forming energy storage in Xinjiang is predicted and analyzed, and the development advantages of grid-forming energy storage in new energy-rich areas are summarized.

  • Xuejiao FU, Denghui HU, Zhanbiao LIU, Laijun CHEN, Yangfan ZHANG, Xiaoling SU
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 51-58.

    The use of grid-forming inverters for grid-connection of photovoltaic units is the key to stable operation of the new energy grid in desert and gobi. The conventional PV load-shedding operation is greatly affected by irradiance and inaccurate power retention. To solve these problems, a PV active standby control strategy based on grid-configuration inverter is proposed. Firstly, a PV grid-connected structure containing reference and backup arrays is designed. Secondly, based on the two-stage PV topology, an active backup control is introduced at the front stage DC/DC and a grid-forming control strategy is introduced at the back stage DC/AC to realize active participation of PV units in grid frequency regulation. The control strategy introduces a constant DC capacitor voltage control to maintain the DC voltage while enhancing the inertia characteristics of the PV unit. Finally, the PV small signal model of the grid-forming inverter is established, and the influence of DC capacitor value on the PV frequency response is analyzed through the root trajectory. The simulation results verify the correctness and feasibility of the proposed control strategy.

  • Linlin WU, Hui LIU, Xianmiao HUANG, Yinchi SHAO, Yang ZHAO, Xuesen ZHU
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 94-104.

    To address the problem of grid connection failure caused by low frequency and voltage stability in power system during pre-synchronization process of grid-forming converters, a pre-synchronization control strategy for grid-forming converters based on improved linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) is proposed. Firstly, the phase locked loop (PLL) control strategy is used to synchronize the phase and amplitude of the grid voltage with the feedback control of phase deviation, which can avoid the stability problems caused by low precision of the PLL and the slow response speed. On this basis, introducing LADRC in angular frequency output of the active frequency branch module can effectively suppress the frequency oscillation of the system, so as to ensure the normal pre-synchronization process of the grid-forming converter and realize successful grid-connection. Finally, on the MATLAB/Simulink simulation platform, a pre-synchronization control model for grid-forming converters based on improved LADRC is established verified through simulation. The results show that, the proposed strategy can effectively suppress the system frequency oscillations and accelerate the pre-synchronization process of the system, ensuring safe operation of the grid-forming converter and ultimately achieving successful grid connection. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

  • Aiguo LIU, Jiaqi MAO, Yanqiao CHEN, Lulu ZHAO, Jingjia LI, Xiwang·Abuduwayiti
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 38-50.

    With the deepening of power electronicization in power system, grid-forming converters with voltage source characteristics will become conventional equipment in modern power systems. In order to conduct accurate and efficient control and operation analysis for power systems equipped with grid-forming equipment and to study their safety and stability characteristics, it is necessary to reduce the complexity of grid-forming converter model with strong nonlinear characteristics. Conventional simplification methods based on current loops and voltage control loops neglect the potential effect of inner loop control and line coupling impedance on the synchronous stability of the equipment. Ensuring the accuracy of stability analysis can be challenging in certain scenarios. Therefore, based on the existing order reduction methods, fully considering the small-signal characteristics of inner loop control and the influence of line coupling impedance, a series of improved simplified models are proposed. Moreover, the adaptability of each simplified model to frequency domain, eigenvalues, and time domain analysis is discussed. It turns out that there is no simplified model that can always maintain high accuracy in all scenarios. It is concluded that the simplification method needs to be changed according to the scenario. According to the analysis results, the relevant basis for selecting the simplified model of the converter and adjusting the control parameters is summarized.

  • Chao CHEN, Chengbo YU, Lixin ZUO
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 143-151.

    To further improve the accuracy and reliability of transient stability assessment (TSA), a feature selection method (Powershap) based on the combination of statistics and Shapley values is proposed, and a power system transient stability assessment model is established. Firstly, the input feature set is constructed based on the steady-state components during the operation of the power system. Powershap is used to divide the dataset into multiple subsets for training, and key feature sets are selected. Then, multiple CatBoost models are trained using key feature sets and transient stability assessments are conduct to generate transient stability assessment models. Finally, simulation experiments are conducted on the New England 10-machine 39-node system and the New England 54-machine 118-node system with the addition of new energy generation, and evaluation results are provided. The experiments show that, in the 10-machine 39-node system in New England, using the Powershap feature selection method for classification can achieve an accuracy of 99.79%. On the improved New England 54-machine 118-node system, its accuracy can reach 99.49%, indicating that the method can effectively perform transient stability assessment of power systems. It is verified that the proposed TSA model has good robustness and generalization ability.

  • Xin LI, Junwei LI, Wei CHEN, Mou HOU, Zefeng JIA, Kun QIU
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 9-19.

    The stability and cost-effectiveness of power supply has been a pressing issue in areas such as isolated islands where power resources are relatively scarce and natural resources is abundant. Conventional stand-alone microgrids mostly rely on the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) for capacity allocation, which has slightly insufficient local search capability when dealing with multi-objective optimization problems with real loads. In order to overcome this limitation, the improved strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm (SPEA2) is used to optimize the capacity allocation of wind-PV-diesel-battery stand-alone microgrid, which takes the economic cost, loss-of-load probability, and carbon emission as the optimization objectives, to achieve a more comprehensive and efficient capacity allocation. By importing the weather and load data of an isolated island and generating the real Pareto frontier of the independent microgrid with wind, PV, diesel and storage, the analysis results of SPEA2 are compared with that of multi-objective search based on indicator selection (IBEA) and NSGA-II algorithms. Compared with the NSGA-II algorithm, the anti generational distance evaluation IGD index of the SPEA2 increases by 46.83%, the spatial evaluation method Spacing index rises by 60.28%, and the real Pareto coverage CPF index grows by 35.14%, indicating the SPEA2 shows a more excellent performance. Finally, the parameters of each part are reasonably configured according to the results of capacity optimization. It shows that the joint output meets the load demand, which provides a new way of thinking for the energy management of isolated islands and other areas with scarce power resources, and also provides a valuable reference for the optimal design of multi-energy microgrids.

  • Yalin XU, Jundong DUAN
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 105-115.

    Under the “dual-carbon” background, in order to realize low-carbon emission and maximize wind power consumption of the microgrid system, an optimal scheduling strategy with a two-layer model of integrated energy system (IES) containing carbon capture power plant (CCPP) and power-to-gas (P2G) coupling and vehicle into the grid (V2G) is proposed. Firstly, at the low-carbon technology level, to address the problem that the CCPP and P2G equipment operate out of sync in time, a liquid storage tank is added as a CO2 buffer station in the middle of the CCPP and the P2G equipment, and a mathematical model containing the CCPP, the P2G equipment and the gas turbine is established. Moreover, a laddered carbon transaction is established to impose low-carbon emission constraints on the IES. Secondly, in order to fully utilize the dual characteristics of EV load and energy storage, strategies are formulated to guide EV charging and discharging during wind abandonment hours and peak hours of the IES to carry out energy time shifting. Finally, at the level of economic efficiency, the integrated operating cost minimization is taken as the objective function, and MATLAB is used to invoke the GUROBI solver to solve the problem. By setting up different scenarios for comparison, the results show that the scheduling strategy can improve the level of microgrid wind power consumption while realizing the low-carbon economic operation of the system.

  • Xinming LIU, Haiyun WANG
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(8): 152-162.

    The large-scale integration of wind power into grid makes it difficult to sustain the peak regulation resources of the existing system, and the wind power consumption is hindered. Therefore, considering the uncertainty of wind power output and electricity price, it proposes a distribution robust optimization method for deep peak regulation of electrolytic aluminum load cooperating with thermal power and energy storage system based on Wasserstein distance. Firstly, combined with the load characteristics of electrolytic aluminum, considering the optimization of deep peak regulation capacity of the energy storage auxiliary thermal power units, an electric power system optimization framework for deep peak shaving of the electrolytic aluminum load and thermal power-energy storage system is established. Secondly, drawing on the idea of the robust model of Wasserstein distance distribution, the Wasserstein fuzzy set constraint of the purchase and sale price of the upper power grid and the output of renewable energy is constructed, and the distribution robust optimization model for deep peak regulation of the electrolytic aluminum load and thermal power-energy storage system is designed. Finally, simulation is performed to verify that the proposed method can effectively improve the peak regulation pressure, reduce the operating cost of the system, and promote the consumption of wind power. The economics and robustness of the method are verified by comparative analysis.

  • Yaxuan XIONG, Xincheng YIN, Chenhua YAO, Jing REN, Yuting WU, Cancan ZHANG, Yulong DING
    Thermal Power Generation. 2024, 53(7): 62-72.

    To achieve the carbon peak and neutrality targets, facilitate low-cost disposal of industrial solid wastes (namely semi-coke ash), and develop new green and low-carbon composite materials, carrying out carbon capture using semi-coke ash is proposed, based on the existing semi-coke ash/sodium nitrate composite phase change heat storage materials. The performance of semi-coke ash and composite phase change heat storage materials before and after carbon sequestration is studied. The results indicate that, the optimal conditions for carbon sequestration in semi-coke ash are: gas composition of 20%CO2/80%N2, ventilation time of 40 minutes, and heating temperature of 650 ℃. Under the optimal experimental conditions, the carbon sequestration rate of semi-coke ash reaches 29.27%. The optimal mass ratio of the resulting composite phase change heat storage material, namely the carbon-sequestered semi-coke ash to NaNO3 is 5:5. It achieves a heat storage density of 288.65 J/g at 100~380 ℃, with better mechanical properties, thermal stability, and chemical compatibility. The use of carbon-sequestered semi-coke ash as a skeletal material to prepare composite phase change heat storage materials is highly feasible, providing a new approach for the resource utilization and carbon emission treatment of industrial solid wastes, namely semi-coke ash.