Course Description

This course focuses on the control of power electronic converters. It has four parts:

• Power quality control;
• Islanded autonomous operation;
• Synchronization;
• Grid-friendly inverters/virtual synchronous machines.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the degradation mechanisms of power quality;
• Master at least one control strategy to deal with harmonics;
• Master robust droop control strategy to achieve autonomous islanded operation;
• Understand the synchronverter technology that makes inverters behave like conventional synchronous generators;
• Learn different strategies to regulate the power flow between converters and the grid;
• Understand the importance of synchronization and common synchronization strategies;
• Get familiar with computational simulations tools for power electronic systems;
• Enhance the awareness on industrial developments and standards.