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Basic schematic of back-to-back based SOP.

Basic schematic of back-to-back based SOP.

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... SOP can also control the active power flow among the feeders and compensate for reactive power. A detailed control algorithm for power flow control, fault isolation, and supply restoration has been proposed in [3]. The system configuration with an SOP is shown in Fig. 1, and the basic configuration of the backto-back based SOP is shown in Fig. 2, where V V V 1 , V V V 2 , · · · , V V V n represent the ac voltage sources ports from same or different grids, and the SOP connect them together to the same dc link capacitor C dc whose voltage amplitude is V dc ...

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... In conventional power systems, stability is guaranteed through the voltage/frequency support and rotational masses of synchronous generators, and grid-tied converters simply follow the established grid. However, the growing penetration of grid-tied power converters will necessitate grid-forming capabilities (Han et al., 2019;Deng et al., 2021;Lin, 2020;Fang, 2021a). As for current grid architectures, existing grid-forming converters can only be connected in parallel for current sharing, but they cannot withstand high voltages (Lin, 2020). ...
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