Three-phase Sinusoid-locked Loop for the Parameters Estimation of Unbalanced Grid Voltage

Abstract

Grid voltage parameters, including the amplitude, frequency and phase angle, are crucial information for real-time control and protection in power systems. Currently, the phase-locked loop methods are widely used for voltage parameters estimation. However, they could hardly achieve accurate estimation in the presence of unbalanced grid voltage and harmonic disturbance. In this paper, a novel three-phase sinusoid-locked loop (SLL) approach is proposed to address the estimation issue of the unbalanced grid voltage parameters. Firstly, the unbalanced three-phase grid voltage is decomposed as the positive and negative sequences based on the instantaneous symmetrical components theory. Then, two SLLs based on the principles of the virtual synchronous machine (VSM) are developed for the positive and negative sequence grid voltages, respectively. Following the idea of SLL, the output voltage of the VSM is locked with the input grid voltage when the real power and reactive power are both driven to zero. Eventually, the unbalanced three-phase grid voltage is reconstructed with the estimated parameters of the positive and negative sequence voltages. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed SLL approach achieves excellent estimation performance with respect to the unbalanced grid voltage.