Design and Analysis of Multi-Loop Feed Forward Control Schemes for DVR under Distorted Grid Conditions

Abstract

Voltage sags are considered as important power quality problems and the Dynamic Voltage Restorer(DVR) is an effective solution to mitigate the sags and other power quality problems related to voltage. The DVR involves two major aspects: (i) reference generation and (ii) control algorithm. Under unbalanced grid conditions the presence of negative sequence components in the grid voltage causes sustained oscillations in the estimated dq- voltages, which makes sag detection difficult with conventional SRF-PLL and there by chances of controller malfunctioning. In this paper, a Delayed Signal Cancellation (DSC) pre-filter based Positive and Negative Sequence Extractor (PNSE) is employed to extract the Instantaneous Symmetrical Components (ISC) of the grid voltage and filter out the harmonic voltages from the estimated dq-voltages. As the response of the DVR mainly depends on the controller action this paper presents an multiloop PI feed forward controller for enhancing the operation of DVR under distorted grid conditions. The efficacy of the proposed controller is illustrated by comparative study with multiloop feed forward P controller using time response and relative stability analysis. Simulation studies are performed in PSCAD/EMTDC for a 10kV medium voltage DVR under various voltage disturbances such as symmetric and asymmetric voltage sags.