Power Electronics-Enabled Autonomous Power Systems: Next Generation Smart Grids

Power systems worldwide are going through a paradigm shift from centralized generation to distributed generation. This book presents the SYNDEM (i.e., synchronized and democratized) grid architecture and its technical routes to harmonize the integration of renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, storage systems, and flexible loads, with the synchronization mechanism of synchronous machines, to enable autonomous operation of power systems, and to promote energy freedom. This is a game changer for the grid. It is the sort of breakthrough -- like the touch screen in smart phones -- that helps to push an industry from one era to the next, as reported by Keith Schneider, a New York Times correspondent since 1982. This book contains an introductory chapter and additional 24 chapters in five parts: Theoretical Framework, First-Generation VSM (virtual synchronous machines), Second-Generation VSM, Third-Generation VSM, and Case Studies. Most of the chapters include experimental results.

As the first book of its kind for power electronics-enabled autonomous power systems, it

- introduces a holistic architecture applicable to both large and small power systems, including aircraft power systems, ship power systems, microgrids, and supergrids
- provides latest research to address the unprecedented challenges faced by power systems and to enhance grid stability, reliability, security, resiliency, and sustainability
- demonstrates how future power systems achieve harmonious interaction, prevent local faults from cascading into wide-area blackouts, and operate autonomously with minimized cyber-attacks
- highlights the significance of the SYNDEM concept for power systems and beyond

Power Electronics-Enabled Autonomous Power Systems is an excellent book for researchers, engineers, and students involved in energy and power systems, electrical and control engineering, and power electronics. The SYNDEM theoretical framework chapter is also suitable for policy makers, legislators, entrepreneurs, commissioners of utility commissions, energy and environmental agency staff, utility personnel, investors, consultants, and attorneys.

全球的電力系統正從集中式發電轉向分散式發電的範式轉變。本書介紹了SYNDEM（即同步和民主化）電網架構及其技術路線，以實現可再生能源、電動車、儲能系統和靈活負載的整合，並與同步機的同步機制相協調，實現電力系統的自主運行，推動能源自由。正如《紐約時報》記者Keith Schneider所報導的那樣，這是電網的一個改變遊戲規則的事件，就像智能手機上的觸摸屏一樣，它有助於推動一個行業從一個時代進入下一個時代。本書包含一個引言章節和另外24個章節，分為五個部分：理論框架、第一代虛擬同步機、第二代虛擬同步機、第三代虛擬同步機和案例研究。大部分章節都包含實驗結果。

作為首本針對電力電子技術實現自主電力系統的書籍，本書具有以下特點：

- 引入了一種適用於大型和小型電力系統的整體架構，包括飛機電力系統、船舶電力系統、微電網和超級電網。
- 提供了最新的研究成果，以應對電力系統面臨的前所未有的挑戰，並提高電網的穩定性、可靠性、安全性、彈性和可持續性。
- 展示了未來電力系統如何實現和諧互動，防止局部故障擴散成大範圍停電，並實現最小化的網絡攻擊。
- 強調了SYNDEM概念對電力系統及其他領域的重要性。

《電力電子技術實現自主電力系統》是一本適合從事能源和電力系統、電氣和控制工程以及電力電子的研究人員、工程師和學生閱讀的優秀書籍。SYNDEM理論框架章節也適合政策制定者、立法者、企業家、公用事業委員會委員、能源和環境機構人員、公用事業人員、投資者、顧問和律師閱讀。

QING-CHANG ZHONG, PhD, FELLOW of IEEE and IET, is the Max McGraw Endowed Chair Professor in Energy and Power Engineering and Management at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, and the Founder and CEO of Syndem LLC, Chicago, USA. He served(s) as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Power and Energy Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society, an Associate Editor of several leading journals in control and power engineering including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, a Senior Research Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., the U.K. Representative to European Control Association, a Steering Committee Member of IEEE Smart Grid, and a Vice-Chair of IFAC Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems. He delivered over 200 plenary/invited talks in over 20 countries.

鍾慶昌博士，IEEE和IET院士，是美國伊利諾伊理工學院（Illinois Institute of Technology）能源與電力工程管理的Max McGraw榮譽講座教授，也是美國芝加哥Syndem LLC的創始人兼首席執行官。他曾擔任IEEE電力與能源學會、IEEE控制系統學會和IEEE電力電子學會的傑出講師，以及多個控制和電力工程領域領先期刊的副編輯，包括《IEEE自動控制交易》、《IEEE工業電子學交易》、《IEEE電力電子學交易》和《IEEE控制系統技術交易》。他還是英國皇家工程學院的高級研究員、歐洲控制協會的英國代表、IEEE智能電網的指導委員會成員，以及IFAC電力與能源系統技術委員會的副主席。他在20多個國家發表了200多場主題/邀請演講。