Book description
Integrating renewable energy and other distributed energy sources
into smart grids, often via power inverters, is arguably the largest
“new frontier” for smart grid advancements. Inverters should be
controlled properly so that their integration does not jeopardize the
stability and performance of power systems and a solid technical
backbone is formed to facilitate other functions and services of smart grids.
This unique reference offers systematic treatment of important
control problems in power inverters, and different general converter
theories. Starting at a basic level, it presents conventional power
conversion methodologies and then 'non-conventional' methods, with a
highly accessible summary of the latest developments in power
inverters as well as insight into the grid connection of renewable power.
Consisting of four parts - Power Quality Control, Neutral Line
Provision, Power Flow Control, and Synchronisation - this book fully
demonstrates the integration of control and power electronics.
Key features include:
- the fundamentals of power processing and hardware design
- innovative control strategies to systematically treat the control
of power inverters
- extensive experimental results for most of the control strategies presented
- the pioneering work on “synchronverters” which has gained IET
Highly Commended Innovation Award
Engineers working on inverter design and those at power system
utilities can learn how advanced control strategies could improve
system performance and work in practice. The book is a useful
reference for researchers who are interested in the area of control
engineering, power electronics, renewable energy and distributed
generation, smart grids, flexible AC transmission systems, and power
systems for more-electric aircraft and all-electric ships. This is
also a handy text for graduate students and university professors in
the areas of electrical power engineering, advanced control
engineering, power electronics, renewable energy and smart grid integration.
Qing-Chang Zhong received his Diploma in electrical engineering
from Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan, China, in 1990, his MSc
degree in electrical engineering from Hunan University, Changsha,
China, in 1997, his PhD degree in control theory and engineering from
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1999, and his PhD
degree in control and power engineering (awarded the Best Doctoral
Thesis Prize) from Imperial College London, London, UK, in 2004, respectively.
He holds the Chair Professor in Control and Systems Engineering at
the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The
University of Sheffield, UK. He has worked at Hunan Institute of
Engineering, Xiangtan, China; Technion¨CIsrael Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel; Imperial College London, London, UK;
University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK; The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK; and Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK. He has
been on sabbatical at the Cymer Center for Control Systems and
Dynamics (CCSD), University of California, San Diego, USA; and the
Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, USA. He is the author or co-author of Robust Control of
Time-Delay Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2006), Control of Integral
Processes with Dead Time (Springer-Verlag, 2010) and Control of Power
Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration (Wiley-IEEE
Press, 2013). His research focuses on advanced control theory and
applications, including power electronics, renewable energy and smart
grid integration, electric drives and electric vehicles, robust and
H-infinity control, time-delay systems and process control.
He is a Specialist recognised by the State Grid Corporation of China
(SGCC), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET), a Senior Member of IEEE, the Vice-Chair of IFAC TC 6. 3 (Power
and Energy Systems) responsible for the Working Group on Power
Electronics and was a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering/Leverhulme Trust, UK (2009¨C2010). He serves as an
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the
Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Tomas Hornik received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering in
1991 from the Technical CollegeVUzlabine, Prague, the BEng and PhD
degree in electrical engineering and electronics from The University
of Liverpool, UK, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He was a
postdoctoral researcher at the same university from 2010 to 2011. He
joined Turbo Power Systems as a Control Engineer in 2011. His research
interests cover power electronics, advanced control theory and
DSP-based control applications. He had more than ten years working
experience in industry as a system engineer responsible for
commissioning and software design in power generation and
distribution, control systems for central heating and building
management. He is a member of the IEEE and the IET.
