Modeling and simulation of power-electronic inverters in analog electronic circuit simulators

Ryan Billmeyer; Minghui Lu; Brian Johnson; Sairaj Dhople

doi:10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401268

Modeling and simulation of power-electronic inverters in analog electronic circuit simulators

Ryan Billmeyer, Minghui Lu, Brian Johnson, Sairaj Dhople

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

This paper demonstrates how equivalent-circuit representations of grid-following power-electronic inverters can be realized within a SPICE-based development environment using common circuit components and VerilogA code. This facilitates computationally lean simulations of inverter networks leveraging the strengths of SPICE in large-scale simulations. We validate the approach with time-domain simulations for a modified version of the IEEE standard 118-bus system modeled in Virtuoso (a SPICE-based solver). Simulation results are compared-focusing on accuracy and computation speed-with results from a commonly used power-electronics simulation package. We note a significant decrease in simulation time with comparable signal resolution when simulating the network in SPICE.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728192017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401268
State	Published - May 1 2021
Event	53rd IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of Duration: May 22 2021 → May 28 2021

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Name	2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

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Conference	53rd IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Daegu
Period	5/22/21 → 5/28/21

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This work was supported in part by the UMN Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, National Science Foundation grant 1453921, U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) Agreement Number EE0009025, and the Washington Research Foundation.

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Billmeyer, R., Lu, M., Johnson, B., & Dhople, S. (2021). Modeling and simulation of power-electronic inverters in analog electronic circuit simulators. In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Proceedings [9401268] (2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401268

Modeling and simulation of power-electronic inverters in analog electronic circuit simulators. / Billmeyer, Ryan; Lu, Minghui; Johnson, Brian et al.
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. 9401268 (2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)).

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Billmeyer, R, Lu, M, Johnson, B & Dhople, S 2021, Modeling and simulation of power-electronic inverters in analog electronic circuit simulators. in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Proceedings., 9401268, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 53rd IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, 5/22/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401268

Billmeyer R, Lu M, Johnson B, Dhople S. Modeling and simulation of power-electronic inverters in analog electronic circuit simulators. In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021. 9401268. (2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)). doi: 10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401268

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