Qing-Chang Zhong & Tomas Hornik 
Control of Power Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration 

Integrating renewable energy and other distributed energy
sources into smart grids, often via power inverters, is arguably
the largest ‘new frontier’ for smart grid advancements.
Inverters should be controlled properly so that their integration
does not jeopardize the stability and performance of power systems
and a solid technical backbone is formed to facilitate other
functions and services of smart grids.

This unique reference offers systematic treatment of important
control problems in power inverters, and different general
converter theories. Starting at a basic level, it presents
conventional power conversion methodologies and then
‘non-conventional’ methods, with a highly accessible
summary of the latest developments in power inverters as well as
insight into the grid connection of renewable power.

Consisting of four parts – Power Quality Control, Neutral
Line Provision, Power Flow Control, and Synchronisation –
this book fully demonstrates the integration of control and power
electronics.

Key features include:

* the fundamentals of power processing and hardware design

* innovative control strategies to systematically treat the
control of power inverters

* extensive experimental results for most of the control
strategies presented

* the pioneering work on ‘synchronverters’ which has
gained IET Highly Commended Innovation Award

Engineers working on inverter design and those at power system
utilities can learn how advanced control strategies could improve
system performance and work in practice. The book is a useful
reference for researchers who are interested in the area of control
engineering, power electronics, renewable energy and distributed
generation, smart grids, flexible AC transmission systems, and
power systems for more-electric aircraft and all-electric ships.
This is also a handy text for graduate students and university
professors in the areas of electrical power engineering, advanced
control engineering, power electronics, renewable energy and smart
grid integration.

About the author

Qing-Chang Zhong received his Diploma in electrical
engineering from Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan, China,
in 1990, his MSc degree in electrical engineering from Hunan
University, Changsha, China, in 1997, his Ph D degree in control
theory and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai, China, in 1999, and his Ph D degree in control and power
engineering (awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Prize) from Imperial
College London, London, UK, in 2004, respectively.

He holds the Chair Professor in Control and Systems Engineering
at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The
University of Sheffield, UK. He has worked at Hunan Institute of
Engineering, Xiangtan, China; Technion¨CIsrael Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel; Imperial College London, London, UK;
University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK; The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK; and Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK. He
has been on sabbatical at the Cymer Center for Control Systems and
Dynamics (CCSD), University of California, San Diego, USA; and the
Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, USA. He is the author or co-author of Robust Control of
Time-Delay Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2006), Control of Integral
Processes with Dead Time (Springer-Verlag, 2010) and Control of
Power Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration
(Wiley-IEEE Press, 2013). His research focuses on advanced control
theory and applications, including power electronics, renewable
energy and smart grid integration, electric drives and electric
vehicles, robust and H-infinity control, time-delay systems and
process control.

He is a Specialist recognised by the State Grid Corporation of
China (SGCC), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and
Technology (IET), a Senior Member of IEEE, the Vice-Chair of IFAC
TC 6.3 (Power and Energy Systems) responsible for the Working Group
on Power Electronics and was a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust, UK (2009¨C2010). He
serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics and the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control
Systems Society.

Tomas Hornik received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering
in 1991 from the Technical College VUzlabine, Prague, the BEng and
Ph D degree in electrical engineering and electronics from The
University of Liverpool, UK, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He was
a postdoctoral researcher at the same university from 2010 to 2011.
He joined Turbo Power Systems as a Control Engineer in 2011. His
research interests cover power electronics, advanced control theory
and DSP-based control applications. He had more than ten years
working experience in industry as a system engineer responsible for
commissioning and software design in power generation and
distribution, control systems for central heating and building
management. He is a member of the IEEE and the IET.