{"title":"A Control Strategy to Mitigate the Sensitivity Deterioration of Overcurrent Protection in Distribution Networks with the Higher Concentration of Synchronous and Inverter Based DG Units","authors":"Muhammad Yousaf, K. Muttaqi, D. Sutanto","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334777","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the indeterminate protection challenge of the sensitivity deterioration (SD) (also known as protection blindness) of the overcurrent protection (OCP) devices due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in the unbalanced distribution networks (DNs). The protection blindness of the OCP has been demonstrated through novel mathematical formulation to quantify the percentage of the protection blindness for different type of distributed generation (DGs) units and for their varying penetration levels. In addition, this issue has been realistically analyzed for the different fault impedances to examine its impact on the traditional OCP system. A mitigation strategy has been proposed to overcome the SD issue of the OCP protective devices (PDs) for a robust detection and clearance of electrical faults by the OCP devices without the need for a costly upgradations of the protection system. This protection blindness issue has been explored and the mitigation strategies have been tested for both synchronous and inverter based DGs using the IEEE standardized test feeder. The results prove the effectiveness of the proposed mitigation strategy for their practical applications and suitability to improve the grid resilience.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131390362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hua Chai, Z. Zhen, Kangping Li, Fei Wang, P. Dehghanian, M. Shafie‐khah, J. Catalão
{"title":"Convolutional Auto-encoder Based Sky Image Prediction Model for Minutely Solar PV Power Forecasting","authors":"Hua Chai, Z. Zhen, Kangping Li, Fei Wang, P. Dehghanian, M. Shafie‐khah, J. Catalão","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334923","url":null,"abstract":"The precise minute time scale forecasting of an individual Photovoltaic power station output relies on accurate sky image prediction. To avoid the two deficiencies of traditional digital image processing technology (DIPT) in predicting sky images: relatively limited input spatiotemporal information and linear extrapolation of images, convolutional auto-encoder (CAE) based sky image prediction models are proposed according to the spatiotemporal feature extraction ability of 2D and 3D convolutional layers. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed models, two typical DIPT methods, including particle image velocimetry (PIV) and Fourier phase correlation theory (FPCT) are introduced to build the benchmark models. The results show that the proposed models outperform the benchmark models under different scenarios.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132021015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prithwiraj Roy Chowdhury, P. Sahu, S. Essakiappan, M. Manjrekar, K. Schneider, Stuart Laval
{"title":"Power Quality and Stability in a Cluster of Microgrids with Coordinated Power and Energy Management","authors":"Prithwiraj Roy Chowdhury, P. Sahu, S. Essakiappan, M. Manjrekar, K. Schneider, Stuart Laval","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334828","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed Energy Resources (DER) such as photovoltaic (PV) systems and battery energy storage systems (BESS) can be operated collectively as microgrids. Microgrids can be effective in meeting local load requirements as well as in improving the power quality and stability in a modern power distribution system. Multiple microgrids can also be operated in a coordinated manner as a cluster, to improve the resiliency of the power distribution system. In the event of an outage caused by a transmission system failure, the microgrids in a cluster can use their distributed generation capacity and energy storage resources to recover and extend power availability to the critical loads in the system. In this paper, an illustrative cluster of two microgrids based on the IEEE 13-bus model with DERs has been used, to demonstrate the operation of the concept using real-time simulations. Using real-time simulations, capabilities such as switching reconfiguration following faults, identification of optimal DER placement for effective power quality management, and power electronic controller validation have been demonstrated. For the two-microgrid cluster, this paper also presents improvements in load voltage quality and extension of service availability by shedding non-critical loads.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130129820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Naidu, S. Arya, R. Maurya, Bhim Singh, A. Al‐Durra
{"title":"Combined Variable Step Size LMS for DVR with Error Regulator Gain Tuning Through Ant-Lion Optimization","authors":"T. Naidu, S. Arya, R. Maurya, Bhim Singh, A. Al‐Durra","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334758","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) performance is enhanced with the combined variable step-size least mean square (CVSSLMS) and optimized PI (Proportional-Integral) regulators-based control algorithm. Multiple voltage disturbances in distribution network like voltage sag, swell, voltage imbalance, and distortions are taken into consideration for compensation using DVR. The CVSSLMS has the combined features of both Normalized LMS (NLMS) and LMS algorithms such as effective transient response and reduced steady state error, respectively. In internal structure of algorithm, PI controllers are used as error regulator to regulate dc and ac bus voltages through error minimization technique. The PI controller gains are tuned through an optimization algorithm named as ant-lion optimization (ALO) algorithm. The added feature of ALO is the avoidance of local optimum. With this control algorithm, the performance of three phase DVR is simulated for the aforesaid disturbances using MATLAB/Simulink model. It is also experimentally tested using DSP (Micro Lab Box, made by Free scale QorlQ P5020) in three phase distribution networks. It is observed that, in both cases, the performance has met the requirement according to the IEEE-519-2014 standard.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131577800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Isolated Bridgeless Cuk-SEPIC Converter Fed Electric Vehicle Charger","authors":"R. Kushwaha, Bhim Singh","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334823","url":null,"abstract":"A single stage electric vehicle battery charger with an isolated bridgeless (BL) Cuk-SEPIC converter is developed in this work. The design of this converter is ensured in discontinuous conduction mode with intrinsic power factor correction (PFC) at AC mains. This topology offers the advantage of reduced number of components with improved efficiency due to integration of Cuk and SEPIC converters during the individual half cycle. The presence of output inductor at Cuk converter side also smoothens the output current, as compared to SEPIC converter used for both cycles. A prototype is designed and developed for a battery load of 48V/100Ah to demonstrate the unity PF based charging. The efficacy of charging is tested in constant current (CC) and constant voltage (CV) modes to validate the performance at rated and different supply voltages. Different power quality parameters are observed to be within the IEC 61000-3-2 standard.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132587702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. M. Mahfuz-Ur-Rahman, Ashif Buksh, Md. Rabiul Islam, K. Muttaqi, D. Sutanto
{"title":"Rooftop Photovoltaic System with Battery Storage to Supply Power in a Sewage Water Pumping Station based Industrial Microgrid with Zero Grid Power","authors":"A. M. Mahfuz-Ur-Rahman, Ashif Buksh, Md. Rabiul Islam, K. Muttaqi, D. Sutanto","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334832","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving zero grid power in systems that utilize solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is a challenging task. This is because of the varying power output of solar PV due to the changing weather conditions and the controls required for a three-phase system. A system that operates induction motor loads, such as in the water pumping plant, increases this difficulty due to their high starting currents and power requirements, which can cause large voltage dips in a grid-connected system, and can have an even larger impact on isolated ones. A battery energy storage system (BESS), consisting of a large lithium-ion battery, a bi-directional dc-dc converter and a bi-directional dc-ac converter is considered in this paper to normalize the output power. A model is developed to accurately simulate the motor loads and the control strategies to operate the system to consume zero grid power at all times. These strategies are designed to limit the transients in the system, as well as to mitigate voltage dips and swells to create a more robust micro-grid. The proposed strategies are then applied for use in a water pumping plant equipped with solar PV and BESS and the simulation results show that the proposed strategy is effective in ensuring that the plant can maintain a zero grid power consumption when sufficient capacities of the solar PV and BESS are available that can be allocated to generate and store the required energy to meet the varying load.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131676434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Submicrometer Particle Penetration in a Miniature Dielectric Barrier Discharge type Electrostatic Precipitator","authors":"A. Zouaghi, N. Zouzou","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334854","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the performance of a miniature plane-to-plane dielectric barrier discharge electrostatic precipitator (DBD-ESP) is investigated experimentally. The particles under investigation have a sub-micrometer size range. Two different configurations have been studied: the first is one-stage DBD-ESP where the particle charging and collection processes act simultaneously. The second is two-stage DBD-ESP where a DBD stage is used to charge particles, then, they are collected in a uniform electric field in the second stage. The two-stage configuration allows the reduction of the energy cost by restricting the size of the DBD electrodes. The typical characteristic quantities of the filamentary DBD such as the current waveform and the corresponding Q-V curve are presented and discussed. Then, a parametric study is carried out to evaluate the effects of the applied voltage amplitude and frequency on the penetration of particles. The main results indicate that the two-stage configuration can improve the DBD-ESP performance at high frequencies.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"178 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127311583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rostan Rodrigues, Utkarsh Raheja, Yuzhi Zhang, P. Cairoli, A. Antoniazzi
{"title":"Power loop busbars design and experimental validation of 1 kV, 5 kA Solid State Circuit Breaker using parallel connected RB-IGCTs","authors":"Rostan Rodrigues, Utkarsh Raheja, Yuzhi Zhang, P. Cairoli, A. Antoniazzi","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334797","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the design of 1 kV, 5 kA solid state circuit breaker by using parallel connection of Reverse Blocking IGCTs (RB-IGCT). The presented breaker topology is based on the parallel connection of low conduction loss RB-IGCTs which delivers efficiency as high as 99.9%. The focus of this paper is on the power loop design and experimental validation of parallel connection of two and three RB-IGCTs with emphasis on current sharing during dynamic events such as short-circuits. A 3D-CAD based design of power loop busbars was verified by several simulation test cases to represent dynamic current sharing under variations in RB-IGCT package impedances. The experimental results confirm that the parallel topology is able to perform current interruption during overload and short-circuit situations up to 10 kA for two devices in parallel and up to 14 kA for three devices in parallel - with current deviation from the mean as little as 6%.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133825672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Synthetic Inertia and Effective Load Modelling in Providing System Stability as Renewable Energy Penetration Increases","authors":"Ashraf Haque, A. Bhuiya","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334821","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, wind power penetration has increased to offset the reduction in fossil fuel generated power. To ensure the power system continues to function adequately, some grid operators require an inertial response from the wind turbines. Synthetic inertia, or the combined inertia from individual wind power turbines in a wind farm, can provide a measured inertial response to the system under various wind power penetration levels. However, the response to the system due to the synthetic inertia from the turbines may not be adequate to assist in the stability of the system due to its rapid response time, usually in the range of a couple of seconds. In this paper, effective load modelling is merged with the effects of synthetic inertia to discover what role these two methods can have on stability in the power system. The Alberta interconnected electric system (AIES) is used to test the proposed hybrid model. Alberta is an energyonly deregulated market. It is expected a higher volume of renewable energy will be added to the power systems everywhere including the AIES. The increase in renewable penetration may result in transient stability challenges. This paper explores how synthetic inertia and load modelling can facilitate a system stability opportunity. Further, the paper examines how synthetic inertia and load modelling can perform under various wind power penetration levels within the Alberta power system. Finally, the response of the inertial model is demonstrated through detailed simulations.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115887454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiantian Zhang, Liping Cheng, Silin He, M. Yu, C. Mao, Dan Wang, Jiancheng Zhang, Bing Han, Zheng Tao
{"title":"Optimal Design Method of Flexible Excitation System for Improving Power System Stability","authors":"Tiantian Zhang, Liping Cheng, Silin He, M. Yu, C. Mao, Dan Wang, Jiancheng Zhang, Bing Han, Zheng Tao","doi":"10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS44978.2020.9334907","url":null,"abstract":"Providing sufficient damping over the full frequency range of the low frequency oscillation (LFO) is a challenge for the power system stabilizer (PSS). The flexible excitation system of the synchronous generator is a novel structure with full-controlled devices, which has two damping channels. One is controlled by PSS, and another can be controlled by the reactive power damping controller (RPDC) to improve the damping over the lower-frequency range. A novel structure, avoiding the limitation of the excessive higher-frequency gain on lower-frequency damping, is adopted in RPDC. The parameters design method of the flexible excitation system is proposed. A SMIB system is established in RTDS (real time digital system), and various oscillation frequencies (i.e. 1.2 Hz, 0.5 Hz, and 0.3 Hz) are obtained by adjusting TJ. The comparisons between the flexible and conventional excitation system show that the flexible excitation system can provide more damping to reduce the steady time, decrease the oscillation amplitude, and improve the power system stability over the full frequency range of LFO, especially over the lower-frequency range.","PeriodicalId":115239,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114776466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}