Blar i Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk (IE) på forfatter "D'Arco, Salvatore"
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Optimal Management for Megawatt Level Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with a Grid Interface Based on Modular Multilevel Converter
Gümrükcü, Erdem; Asadollahi, Ehsan; Joglekar, Charukeshi; Ponci, Ferdinanda; Monti, Antonello; Guidi, Giuseppe; D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper proposes a strategy to manage an electric vehicle charging station (EVCSs) with a grid-side interface based on a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC). In such a system, heterogeneous behavior of electric vehicles ... -
Optimized Allocation of Loads in MMC-based Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Gümrükcü, Erdem; Ponci, Ferdinanda; Monti, Antonello; Guidi, Giuseppe; D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Chapter, 2020)Utilization of the modular multilevel converter (MMC) topology can enable transformer-less interfacing between electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and the power distribution grid. Such configurations are claimed ... -
P-HiL Evaluation of Virtual Inertia Support to the Nordic Power System by an HVDC Terminal
D'Arco, Salvatore; Duong, Dinh Thuc; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Chapter, 2020)This paper provides an assessment of the effect from virtual inertia provided by an HVDC converter terminal on the Nordic power system. The analysis is based on results from Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop (P-HiL) tests with a ... -
Phase Angle Feed-Forward Control for Improving the Power Reference Tracking of Virtual Synchronous Machines
D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A method for improving the power reference tracking capability of Virtual Synchronous Machines (VSM) by phase angle feed-forward (PAFF) control is proposed in this paper. The presented implementation includes compensation ... -
Placement of virtual inertia from HVDC terminals based on a frequency deviation index
Garcia Rosa, Paula Bastos; D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Chapter, 2021)This paper presents an approach for assessing the most suitable locations to provide virtual inertia by HVDC converters. A frequency deviation index quantifying the maximum distance in Hz from each bus in the power system ... -
Polynomial Fitting of Operating Point Dependency in Small-Signal State-Space Models for Power Electronic Converters
Reis, Lisa; Smith, Andrew MacMillan; D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold (Chapter, 2023)This paper presents an approach for representing nonlinear operating point dependencies in small-signal state-space modelling of power electronic converters. The intended application is for unifying a set of small-signal ... -
Power oscillation damping with virtual capacitance support from modular multilevel converters
Taffese, Abel Assegid; Endegnanew, Atsede Gualu; D'Arco, Salvatore; Tedeschi, Elisabetta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Power oscillation damping (POD) is one of the ancillary services expected from high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converters. When providing POD to the ac side, converters draw power from the dc side, which can cause ... -
Resynchronization of Islanded Virtual Synchronous Machines by Cascaded Phase and Frequency Controllers Acting on the Internal Power Reference
Giudicepietro, Francesco; D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold; Piegari, Luigi (Chapter, 2020)Virtual Synchronous Machines (VSMs) have the capability to operate in grid connected or in islanded mode in the same way as synchronous machines. Furthermore, VSMs can inherently support seamless transition from grid ... -
Single-stage Grid-Connected PV System with Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control and an Improved Maximum Power Point Tracking
Vanti, Simone; Bana, Prabhat Ranjan; D'Arco, Salvatore; Amin, Mohammad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The single-stage grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) topology has drawn attention in the recent years as it can reduce the overall losses and installation costs. However, an efficient control is necessary to operate such a ... -
Small-signal model analysis of droop-controlled modular multilevel converters with circulating current suppressing controller
Freytes, Julian; Bergna Diaz, Gilbert; Suul, Jon Are Wold; D'Arco, Salvatore; Saad, Hani; Guillaud, Xavier (Chapter, 2017)This paper presents a small signal eigenvalue analysis applied to a droop-controlled HVDC terminal based on the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) topology. The applied linearised model is derived from previous modelling ... -
Small-signal modeling and parametric sensitivity of a virtual synchronous machine in islanded operation
D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold; Fosso, Olav B (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The concept of Virtual Synchronous Machines (VSMs) is emerging as a flexible approach for controlling power electronic converters in grid-connected as well as in stand-alone or microgrid applications. Several VSM implementations ... -
State-space modelling with steady-state time invariant representation of energy based controllers for modular multilevel converters
Freytes, Julian; Bergna-Diaz, Gilbert; Suul, Jon Are Wold; D'Arco, Salvatore; Saad, Hani; Guillaud, Xavier (Chapter, 2017)The average value model of the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is in general non-linear with time periodic variables. Recent developments demonstrated how the MMC model can be transformed into a a Steady-State Time ... -
Time-Invariant State-Space model of an AC Cable by dq-representation of Frequency-Dependent π-sections
D'Arco, Salvatore; Suul, Jon Are Wold; Beerten, Jef (Chapter, 2019)This paper introduces an approach for frequency-dependent pi-section (FD- π) modelling of ac cables which enables a time-invariant state-space representation that accounts for the frequency-dependent cable characteristics. ... -
A Virtual Synchronous Machine-based Control for Eliminating DC-side Power Oscillations of Three-Phase VSCs under Unbalanced Grid Voltages
Avdiaj, Eros; Suul, Jon Are Wold; D'Arco, Salvatore; Piegari, Luigi (Chapter, 2021)This paper presents a Virtual Synchronous Machine (VSM)-based control method for avoiding dc-side power oscillations in grid connected voltage source converters (VSCs) when operating under under unbalanced conditions. The ... -
Virtual synchronous machine-based control of a single-phase bi-directional battery charger for providing vehicle-to-grid services
Suul, Jon Are Wold; D'Arco, Salvatore; Guidi, Giuseppe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper presents a single-phase Virtual Synchronous Machine (VSM) and its possible application for providing Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) services from domestic battery chargers of Electric Vehicles (EVs). In a VSM, the power ...