Aapo Aapro

ORCID: 0000-0003-4357-1535
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Research Areas
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Islanding Detection in Power Systems
  • Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
  • Advanced DC-DC Converters
  • HVDC Systems and Fault Protection
  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Optimal Power Flow Distribution
  • Power Systems and Renewable Energy
  • VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design

Ingersoll Rand (United States)
2019

Tampere University
2014-2018

Tampere University of Applied Sciences
2016

LCL-filter is commonly used to attenuate the switching harmonics of grid-connected converters. LCL -filter creates resonances in converter dynamics which shall be damped for ensuring robust performance converter. Active damping methods can resonant behavior effectively. Accordingly, output impedance affected and grid-interaction sensitivity varies with active design. In order carry out impedance-based stability analysis or assessment harmonic rejection capability, an accurate analytical...

10.1109/tie.2017.2696494 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2017-04-24

The grid-connection point of photovoltaic inverters may exhibit inductive characteristics (i.e., a weak grid) due to long transmission cables as well multiple transformers. A large grid impedance can arouse impedance-based stability problems, sustained resonances and impose power-delivery limits. This paper discusses an impedance-compensated synchronous reference- frame-PLL-angle-correction method. method presented in this compensates the PLL angle according estimated or measured order...

10.1109/tec.2019.2944947 article EN IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion 2019-10-10

This paper proposes a multivariable small-signal model of three-phase grid-connected renewable energy inverter in dq-domain. The allows predicting the shape output admittance with an arbitrary power factor and includes dynamic effects DC-voltage control, AC-current phase-locked-loop decoupling terms. There is no need to simplify by neglecting any cross-couplings between d q-components because developed recognizing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) nature inverter. matrix including...

10.1109/compel.2015.7236460 article EN 2015-07-01

Power quality problems caused by grid-connected renewable energy inverters have been reported in recent literature. Excessive harmonics and interharmonics may arise when the inverter starts to interact with grid impedance. Small-signal impedance models proven be useful tools analyze stability margins. However, most often voltage feedforward loop employed is not included impedance-based analysis. To fill this gap, paper presents an model, which includes effect of feedforward, presence large...

10.23919/ipec.2018.8507573 article EN 2018 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Niigata 2018 -ECCE Asia) 2018-05-01

Voltage-type sources have dominated as an input source for power electronics converters a long type. The existence of duality implies that there are also current-type sources. growing application renewable energy such wind and solar has evidently shown the exist in reality photovoltaic (PV) generator or feedback technique used controlling systems changes electronic to behaving such. recent research on indicated very challenging affecting dynamics interfacing profoundly. This paper provides...

10.3390/en10081076 article EN cc-by Energies 2017-07-25

The amount of grid-connected inverters has been growing steadily over the past decade due to increase in renewable power generation. These have reported degrade quality grid areas where generation is large. However, reasons behind issues are not yet extensively literature. output impedance single and three-phase PV resemble a negative resistance frequency range which depends on selected control scheme parameters. Negative can cause impedance-based interactions may lead instability,...

10.1109/epe.2014.6910808 article EN 2014-08-01

Grid-connected three-phase inverters are increasingly used to interface renewable energy sources distribution networks. From the perspective of power quality output impedance inverter should be as large possible since usually operated under output-current control mode. Feedforward from grid voltages has been demonstrated improve which is an indicator for better behavior. However, effect feedforward not verified by accurate measurements in literature. This paper demonstrates voltage on a with...

10.1109/ipemc.2016.7512720 article EN 2016-05-01

Grid impedance and the output of grid-connected inverter are important parameters for operation systems, such as solar, wind, other distributed-generation resource systems. The mismatch between grid interfacing circuit often generates harmonic resonances that lead to reduced power quality. Since impedances usually vary over time with many parameters, online measurements required adaptive control inverters. Several methods have been proposed quick, accurate impedances, but use multiple-input...

10.1109/ecce.2016.7855183 article EN 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2016-09-01

Three-phase photovoltaic inverters are usually equipped with an LCL-type output filter to reduce cost and size of the converter compared a simple L-type filter. The LCL-filter has inherent resonance which be damped by passive or active method avoid instability. This paper presents accurate full-order small-signal model three-phase VSI-based inverter is developed in dq-domain, where steady-state operating point can solved. been verified extracting frequency responses from scaled-down...

10.1109/icpe.2015.7168092 article EN 2015-06-01

Power quality problems caused by grid-connected renewable energy inverters have been reported increasingly in recent literature. Excessive harmonics and interharmonics arise when the inverter starts to interact with grid impedance. Small-signal impedance models proven be useful tools analyze stability margins. However, presented dq-domain voltage feedforward loop employed is not included. To fill this gap, paper presents a new model, which includes effect of feedforward, impedance-based...

10.1541/ieejjia.8.488 article EN IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications 2019-04-30

Power electronic inverters are devices that used to interface renewables, such as photovoltaic panels or wind turbines, with the electrical power system. The inverter should control its output current follow a sinusoidal reference avoid distorting voltage waveform of However, in real dead-time is signals which causes unwanted harmonics, leading lower quality. amount harmonics difficult predict due nonlinear nature dead-time. Moreover, harmonic distortion depends on many variables, parameters...

10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.09.186 article EN IFAC-PapersOnLine 2018-01-01

LCL-filter is commonly used as an output-side filter in a grid-connected converter due to its good attenuation capability at the switching harmonic frequencies. creates several resonances dynamics which shall be damped for ensuring robust performance of converter. The resonant behavior introduced by can attenuated with active damping (AD) instead passive improve system efficiency. Moreover, affects especially output impedance and should accurately predicted order perform impedance-based...

10.1109/iecon.2016.7793362 article EN 2016-10-01

Renewable resources such as solar and wind are most commonly connected to a utility grid through inverters.The stability system characteristics of systems can be defined by the ratio impedance inverter output impedance.Since impedances vary over time with numerous operation conditions, real-time measurements required verify stability.The measurement technique based on maximumlength-binary-sequence (MLBS) injection Fourier techniques has been proven an efficient option for online analysis...

10.3384/ecp17142155 article EN Linköping electronic conference proceedings 2018-12-19

Three-phase photovoltaic inverters are usually equipped with an LCL-type output filter to reduce cost and size of the converter compared a simple L-type filter. However, LCL-filter has inherent resonance which be damped by passive or active method avoid instability. This paper presents accurate small-signal model three-phase VSI-based inverter using transfer matrices. Additionally, effect damping on impedance is analyzed. The developed been verified extracting frequency responses from...

10.1109/compel.2015.7236463 article EN 2015-07-01

The amount of photovoltaic inverters connected to the electrical grid is increasing. In order control power fed grid, inverter must be controlled, and many different approaches for small-signal modeling have been proposed facilitate controller design. However, a solar panel cannot modeled by an ideal current source not on load side. This paper proposes generalized method include effects dynamic model inverter. can used impedance generator distribution line in

10.1109/iecon.2018.8591642 article EN IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2018-10-01

LCL-filter is commonly used as an output-side filter in a grid-connected converter due to its good attenuation capability at the switching harmonic frequencies. creates several resonances dynamics which shall be damped for ensuring robust performance of converter. The resonant behavior introduced by can attenuated with active damping (AD) instead passive improve conversion efficiency. affects output impedance converter, and should accurately predicted order allow analyzing impedance-based...

10.1109/epe.2016.7695360 article EN 2016-09-01
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