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Newinvertercontrolforbalancingstandalonemicro-gridphase
voltages:AreviewonMGpowerqualityimprovement

مؤلف البحث
Rashad M.Kamel a,b,n
المشارك في البحث
سنة البحث
2016
مجلة البحث
RenewableandSustainableEnergyReviews
الناشر
NULL
عدد البحث
Vol. 63
تصنيف البحث
1
صفحات البحث
pp. 520–532
موقع البحث
NULL
ملخص البحث

StandaloneMicroGrid(MG)suffersfromhighvoltageunbalancingduetobothsinglephaseandunba-
lanced loads.Thispaperpresentsacomprehensivesurveyabouttheavailabletechniquesandcontrollers
for MGpowerqualityimprovement.RecenttrendsandschemesforthestandaloneMGpowerquality
improvementarereportedindetail.ThetechniqueswhichconcernwiththeMGvoltageunbalancing
issue arehighlighted.Inaddition,thispaperdevelopsasimpleschemeforbalancingtheMGphase
voltages.Theproposedschemeemploysanewinterfacinginvertertopologyandcontrol.Thethreephase
compact unitinterfacinginverteroftheDistributedGenerators(DGs)hasbeenrebuiltinformofthree
single phaseinverterunits.EachsinglephaseinverterunitiscontrolledindependentlytoachieveMG
phase voltagebalancing.Atdifferentloadoperatingconditions,thethreesinglephaseinverterunitsrun
at differentvaluesandtypes(leadingorlagging)powerfactors(PF).Employingtheproposedinverter
control achievesperfectphasevoltagesbalancingatthemostMGbuses.Beforeemployingtheproposed
invertercontrol,thevoltageunbalancingratioatsomebusesexceedsthan6%.Thisratioapproximately
shrinks tozeroafterincludingtheproposedinvertercontrol.Theperformanceoftheproposedinverter
control hasbeentestedunderdifferentloadconditions.Inaddition,theperformanceoftheproposed
invertercontroliscomparedwithboththeoldinvertercontrol(unitypowerfactorinverter)andthe
conventionalinvertercontrol(constantpowerfactorinverter)performance.Only,asimplemodification
to theoldinvertercontrolissufficient toimplementthenewinvertercontrol.Theproposedinverter
control isverysimpleandhighlyeconomicalattractive