A multi-function grid connected PV system with three level NPC inverter and voltage oriented control

In this paper a grid connected photovoltaic (PV) system is presented. The grid integration of the PV system is carried out via a three phase three level neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter. To control the inverter a modified version of voltage oriented control (VOC) method and the space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) technique have been applied. With the proposed modification the PV system operates as a shunt active power filter (SAPF), a reactive power compensator, and a load’s current balancer simultaneously. In this way the PV system operates more efficiently compared to the conventional PV systems and offers ancillary services to electric power system. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is established through simulation results with Matlab/Simulink in steady state and transient response of the electric power distribution system.     

A power allocation strategy of a hybrid energy storage system for a PV grid-connected system

针对光伏并网系统中光伏微电源出力的波动性和间歇性,将蓄电池和超级电容器构成的混合储能系统HESS（hybrid energy storage system）应用到光伏并网系统中可以实现光伏功率平滑、能量平衡以及提高并网电能质量。在同时考虑蓄电池的功率上限和超级电容的荷电状态（SOC）的情况下,对混合储能系统提出了基于超级电容SOC的功率分配策略;该策略以超级电容的SOC和功率分配单元的输出功率作为参考值,对混合储能系统充放电过程进行设计。超级电容和蓄电池以Bi-direction DC/DC变换器与500 V直流母线连接,其中超级电容通过双闭环控制策略对直流母线电压进行控制。仿真结果表明,所提功率分配策略能对混合储能系统功率合理分配,而且实现了单位功率因数并网,稳定了直流母线电压。     

Multi-objective coordinated droop-based voltage regulation in distribution grids with PV systems

High penetrations of photovoltaic (PV) systems in distribution grids have caused new challenges such as reverse power flow and voltage rise. Reactive power contribution by PV systems has been proposed by grid codes and literature as one of the remedies for voltage profile violation. Recent German Grid Codes (GGC), for instance, introduce a standard active power dependent reactive power characteristic, Q(P), for inverter-coupled distributed generators. Nevertheless, the GGC recommends a voltage dependent reactive power characteristic Q(V) for the near future, recognizing that the Q(P) characteristic cannot explicitly address voltage limits. This study utilizes the voltage sensitivity matrix and quasi-static analysis in order to develop a coordinated Q(V) characteristic for each PV system along a radial feeder using only the local measurement and drooping technique concepts. The aim of this paper is using a multi-objective design to adjust the parameters of the Q(V) characteristic in the proposed droop-based voltage regulation in order to minimize the reactive power consumption and line losses. On the other hand, it is also possible to adjust the parameters in order to reach equal reactive power sharing among all PV systems. A radial test distribution grid, which consist of five PV systems, is used to calculate power flow and, in turn, the voltage sensitivity matrix. The comparison of results demonstrates that both approaches in the proposed droop-based voltage regulation can successfully regulate the voltage to the steady-state limit. Moreover, it is shown that the profile of reactive power consumption and line losses are considerably reduced by the multi-objective design.     

Photovoltaic solar system connected to the electric power grid operating as active power generator and reactive power compensator

In the case of photovoltaic (PV) systems acting as distributed generation (DG) systems, the DC energy that is produced is fed to the grid through the power-conditioning unit (inverter). The majority of contemporary inverters used in DG systems are current source inverters (CSI) operating at unity power factor. If, however, we assume that voltage source inverters (VSI) can replace CSIs, we can generate reactive power proportionally to the remaining unused capacity at any given time. According to the theory of instantaneous power, the inverter reactive power can be regulated by changing the amplitude of its output voltage. In addition, the inverter active power can be adjusted by modifying the phase angle of its output voltage. Based on such theory, both the active power supply and the reactive power compensation (RPC) can be carried out simultaneously. When the insolation is weak or the PV modules are inoperative at night, the RPC feature of a PV system can still be used to improve the inverter utilisation factor. Some MATLAB simulation results are included here to show the feasibility of the method.     

Vectorial command of an asynchronous motor fed by a photovoltaic generator

In order to promote renewable energy, Tunisia has developed a large program to exploitate photovoltaïc systems (PV) to provide electric power in rural electrification. These needs increase continually following standard of living improvements, from lighting and media communication (radio, TV) to motors, refrigeration and pumping. The fluctuation of solar energy on one hand, and the necessity to optimise available solar energy on the other, it is useful to develop new efficient and flexible modes to control motors. A vectorial control of an asynchronous motor fed by a photovoltaïc system is proposed. In this case, the control of the circulating current becomes an important objective in the algorithm design. This paper presents an efficient current controller scheme that can achieve high accuracy and a fast dynamic response of induction machine. This scheme uses voltage decoupling and proportional integral controller loops (PI). Furthermore, to operate the PV array at its maximum power point for every instant, the PV system must contain a maximum power point tracking controller (MPPT). Good static and dynamic performances were obtained in simulation of the proposed structure.     

Power conversion in renewable energy systems: A review advances in wind and PV system

Grid‐connected photo voltaic (PV) systems are being developed very fast and systems from a few kW to tenths of a MW are now in operation. As an important source of distributed generation (DS) the PV systems need to comply with a series of standard requirements in order to ensure the safety and the seamless transfer of the electrical energy to the grid. Multilevel voltage source converters (VSC) is a heart of the PV system and are emerging as an important power converter options for low, medium, and high‐power applications. These VSCs have bought numerous advantages, especially in renewable energy systems such as PV and wind energy systems. In this article, several topologies of VSCs, which brings together some concepts from traditional converters and multi‐level converters, are presented. Also, several control strategies for controlling current, voltage, active power and reactive power have also been reviewed. Various topologies with their technical aspects have been reviewed and the best suitable topology and control scheme for grid connected PV and wind energy systems has been suggested. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

微网中储能系统的控制与分析

在微网系统中,大功率电力负荷的投切会导致电网电压幅值和频率产生波动。将储能装置应用于微网系统中,可以通过逆变控制单元,实时监控电网电压波动,即时调节配电网输送的有功、无功功率大小,从而达到平抑电网电压波动的效果。采用了电压频率环控制和有功、无功补偿控制相结合的控制算法,可以即时检测电网电压波动并进行快速补偿,具有较强的有功、无功调节能力。通过构建微网模拟环境,对比试验了不加储能装置和接入储能装置后微电网投入不同电力负荷时的电压波动情况,验证了控制策略的有效性和正确性。     

SMC-DPC based active and reactive power control of grid-tied three phase inverter for PV systems

In this paper, sliding mode control (SMC) – direct power controller (DPC) based active and reactive power controller for three-phase grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system is proposed. The proposed system consists of two main controllers: the DC/DC boost converter to track the possible maximum power from the PV panels and the grid-tied three-phase inverter. The Perturb and Observe (P&O) algorithm is used to transfer the maximum power from the PV panels. Control of the active and reactive powers is performed using the SMC-DPC strategy without any rotating coordinate transformations or phase angle tracking of the grid voltage. In addition, extra current control cycles are not used to simplify the system design and to increase transient performance. The fixed switching frequency is obtained by using space vector modulation (SVM). The proposed system provides very good results both in transient and steady states with the simple algorithms of P&O and SMC-DPC methods. Moreover, the results are evaluated by comparing the SMC-DPC method developed for MPPT and the traditional PI control method. The proposed controller method is achieved with TMS320F28335 DSP processor and the system is experimentally tested for 12 kW PV generation systems.     

电动汽车的双向DC-DC变换器多模态控制方法

针对当前电动汽车功率控制过程中存在负载跳变抗干扰性能差、响应速度较慢等问题,提出一种应用于电动汽车的双向DC-DC变换器多模态控制方法。文章详细分析了电动汽车双向DC-DC变换器的拓扑结构和升降压控制模式;结合不同工况下的变换器工作状态,分析电压和电流模式控制,得出其电压、电流开闭环函数;利用多模态控制方法,由变换器的功能控制单元下达电压、电流环给定信号来实现功率波动平抑控制;在MATLAB中搭建了仿真模型。仿真结果表明,文章所提出的控制方法能够较好地实现双向DC-DC变换器的功率波动平抑功能,具有稳定性好、对负载跳变抗干扰性能强、响应速度快的特点。     

采用微功耗控制器提高光伏效率

该文从理论上分析了采用太阳自动跟踪控制装置可提高太阳转换效率的空间；并阐述了采用不同于传感器方式的定时跟踪法的电路实现原理。这种电路不仅省去传感器和相关电路的能耗，更重要的是在该电路中可以实现最省电的休眠工作模式，使采用太阳自动跟踪控制装置后提高转换电能成为现实。该文还对比了固定安置的太阳电池板和采用了太阳自动跟踪控制装置的太阳电池板在相同条件下的转换效率。结果得出采用定时太阳自动跟踪装置的光伏发电系统能大幅度提高转换效率。     

Adaptive fuzzy control with an optimization by using genetic algorithms for grid connected a hybrid photovoltaic–hydrogen generation system

The integration of significant amounts of renewable-storage hybrid power generation systems to the electric grid poses a unique set of challenges to utilities and system operators. This article deals with the designing methodology of an intelligent control based grid-connected a hybrid system composed of renewable energy source (RES) and storage system (SS). RES is a photovoltaic (PV) source and SS is a process of hydrogen transformation system (H₂TS) which composed of alkaline water electrolysis (AWE) for decomposition water by using the PV power, a tank used for gas storage and a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell (FC) to transform the H₂ to the electrical energy. The interconnection of the grid with the power generation system (PGS) is ensured through using a DC/AC hysteresis converter and it can synchronize current with the grid voltage among an independent control of active (P) and reactive (Q) power through a possibility of the Q compensation. In the proposed system, three algorithms are applied; two used inside generation and the third is used inside the grid. Perturb and observe (P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control algorithm always finds optimal power in the PV generator. A simple cascade controls loop of DC-DC boost converter and operate the FC generator to ensure maximum power and to regulate the DC Bus voltage. In addition, adaptive fuzzy logic control (FLC) unit is developed to control the DC/AC inverter, with adopting an off-line optimization based on genetic algorithms (GAs) applauded for tune different issues as scaling factors of the FLC and PIDs gains of the PV and the H₂TS control loops. Simulated results prove a big success of the proposed controls of the grid connected the hybrid PV-H₂TS with good performance.     

Rapid transaction to load variations of active filter supplied by PV system

This paper deals with the analysis and control of a photovoltaic (PV) system connected to the main supply through a Boost converter and shunt active filter supplied by a PV system providing continuous supply of nonlinear load in variation. A robust control of a PV system connected to the grid while feeding a variable nonlinear load is developed and highlighted. This development is based on the control of the Boost converter to extract the maximum power from the PV system using the Perturb and Observe (P and O) algorithm in the presence of temperature and illumination. The proposed modeling and control strategy provide power to the variable nonlinear load and facilitates the transfer of power from solar panel to the grid while improving the quality of energy (harmonic currents compensation, power factor compensation and dc bus voltage regulation). Validation of the developed model and control strategy is conducted using power system simulator Sim-Power System Blockset Matlab/Simulink. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the shunt active filter to load changes, the method of instantaneous power (pq theory) is used to identify harmonic currents. The obtained results show an accurate extraction of harmonic currents and perfect compensation of both reactive power and harmonic currents with a lower THD and in accordance with the IEEE-519 standard.     

Control strategies for a photovoltaic--Energy storage hybrid system

受光照,温度等自然条件影响,光伏电源输出有功功率具有较大的波动性.因此,本身既非恒压源又非恒流源的光伏电源并网运行时会产生一系列问题,如对电网冲击性大,需增加旋转备用容量,难以参与电网调度等.利用电池储能系统来控制有功功率输出,可以使平滑光伏电源功率波动成为可能.研究了光储联合发电系统的运行模式,提出了适用于光储联合发电系统的拓扑结构和控制策略,并对储能用功率转换系统(PCS)进行了分析和设计,最后基于某光伏电站的实际历史运行数据,对所提出的方案进行仿真研究,仿真结果验证了光储联合发电系统控制策略的有效性和可行性,为光储联合运行示范工程提供了一定的理论依据和有力借鉴.     

一种基于超级电容器的光伏系统电压控制方法研究

根据超级电容器储能特点,建立了用于独立光伏发电的超级电容器储能系统模型,设计了超级电容器电压控制环节,提出了一种带有超级电容器电压模糊反馈的双环控制策略,通过对开环系统bode图的分析,论证了控制系统的稳定性和动态性能。仿真结果表明,在光伏发电系统受到光照及负载扰动的情况下,超级电容器储能系统可以有效地稳定光伏系统的输出电压,提高系统供电的可靠性和电能质量,并且抑制了超级电容器端电压大范围波动对该系统的影响,提高了超级电容器的利用率。     

Power quality investigation of a solar PV transformer-less grid-connected system fed DVR

This paper presents a single stage transformer-less grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system with an active and reactive power control. In the absence of active input power, the grid-tied voltage source converter (VSC) is operated in a reactive power generation mode, which powers the control circuitry, and maintains a regulated DC voltage to the VSC. A data-based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control scheme which performs power quality control at a maximum power by reducing the total harmonic distortion (THD) in grid injected current as per IEEE-519/1547 standards is implemented. A proportional-integral (PI) controller based dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) control scheme is implemented which controls the grid side converter during single-phase to ground fault. The analysis includes the grid current THD along with the corresponding variation of the active and reactive power during the fault condition. The MPPT tracks the actual variable DC link voltage while deriving the maximum power from the solar PV array, and maintains the DC link voltage constant by changing the modulation index of the VSC. Simulation results using Matlab/Simulink are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and validations of the proposed novel MPPT and DVR control systems under different environmental conditions.     

Impact of active power curtailment on overvoltage prevention and energy production of PV inverters connected to low voltage residential feeders

As non-controllable power sources, photovoltaics (PV) can create overvoltage in low voltage (LV) distribution feeders during periods of high generation and low load. This is usually prevented passively by limiting the penetration level of PV to very conservative values, even if the critical periods rarely occur. Alternatively, one can use active power curtailment (APC) techniques, reducing the amount of active power injected by the PV inverters, as the voltage at their buses increase above a certain value. In this way, it is possible to increase the installed PV capacity and energy yield while preventing overvoltage. This paper investigates a number of approaches for sizing and controlling the PV power generated by 12 net-zero energy houses equipped with large rooftop PV systems in a typical 240 V/75 kVA Canadian suburban radial distribution feeder. Simulations of a one year period with typical solar irradiance and load profiles are conducted with PSCAD to assess the performance of the different approaches in terms of overvoltage occurrence, sharing of the burden for overvoltage prevention per house and total energy yield of the residential PV feeder.     

State coordinated voltage control in an active distribution network with on-load tap changers and photovoltaic systems

Decreasing costs and favorable policies have resulted in increased penetration of solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation in distribution networks. As the PV systems penetration is likely to increase in the future, utilizing the reactive power capability of PV inverters to mitigate voltage deviations is being promoted. In recent years, droop control of inverter- based distributed energy resources has emerged as an essential tool for use in this study. The participation of PV systems in voltage regulation and its coordination with existing controllers, such as on-load tap changers, is paramount for controlling the voltage within specified limits. In this work, control strategies are presented that can be coordinated with the existing controls in a distributed manner. The effectiveness of the proposed method was demonstrated through simulation results on a distribution system.     

Dead-beat instantaneous power control for off-board charger of electric vehicle for V2G application

Dead-beat instantaneous power control strategy for electric vehicle off-board V2G charger is presented in this paper, to suppress harmonic pollution to power grid and realize bi-directional flow of electric energy. The charger consists of three-phase voltage source PWM grid-side converter and bi-directional dc/dc converter. A double closed-loop for three-phase voltage source PWM grid-side converter is designed firstly. And the outer voltage loop is used to keep dc bus voltage constant. The expected switching voltage components are achieved by substituting predicted instantaneous power with its instruction value, to form the inner dead-beat instantaneous power loop. Then a voltage–current double closed-loop for bi-directional dc/dc converter is proposed to implement two-stage charging, combining with constant-current charging and constant-voltage charging. Finally, the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed control strategy are verified on the power-hardware-in-loop-simulation platform.     

Power quality improvement of solar photovoltaic transformer-less grid-connected system with maximum power point tracking control

This paper presents a transformer-less single-stage grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system with active reactive power control. In the absence of active input power, grid-tied voltage source converter (VSC) is operated in the reactive power generation mode, which powers control circuitry and maintains regulated DC voltage. Control scheme has been implemented so that the grid-connected converter continuously serves local load. A data-based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) has been implemented at maximum power which performs power quality control by reducing total harmonic distortion (THD) in grid-injected current under varying environmental conditions. Standards (IEEE-519/1547) stipulates that current with THD greater than 5% cannot be injected into the grid by any distributed generation (DG) source. MPPT tracks actual variable DC link voltage while deriving maximum power from PV array and maintains DC link voltage constant by changing the converter modulation index. Simulation results with the PV model and MPPT technique validations demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed system.     

Grid connected fuel cell and PV hybrid power generating system design with Matlab Simulink

Renewable energy sources have been taken the place of the traditional energy sources and especially rapidly developments of photovoltaic (PV) technology and fuel cell (FC) technology have been put forward these renewable energy sources (RES) in all other RES. PV systems have been started to be used widely in domestic applications connected to electrical grid and grid connected PV power generating systems have become widespread all around the world. On the other hand, fuel cell power generating systems have been used to support the PV generating so hybrid generation systems consist of PV and fuel cell technology are investigated for power generating. In this study, a grid connected fuel cell and PV hybrid power generating system was developed with Matlab Simulink. 160 Wp solar module was developed based on solar module temperature and solar irradiation by using real data sheet of a commercial PV module and then by using these modules 800 Wp PV generator was obtained. Output current and voltage of PV system was used for input of DC/DC boost converter and its output was used for the input of the inverter. PV system was connected to the grid and designed 5 kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system was used for supporting the DC bus of the hybrid power generating system. All results obtained from the simulated hybrid power system were explained in the paper. Proposed model was designed as modular so designing and simulating grid connected SOFC and PV systems can be developed easily thanks to flexible design.