{"title":"A novel flying capacitor transformerless inverter for single-phase grid connected solar photovoltaic system","authors":"Y. Siwakoti, F. Blaabjerg","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527086","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new single-phase flying capacitor transformerless PV inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. The neutral of the grid can be directly connected to the negative terminal of the source (PV). It consists of four power switches, one diode, one capacitor and a small filter at the output stage. A simple Unipolar Sinusoidal Pulse-Width Modulation (SPWM) technique is used to modulate the inverter to minimize switching loss, output current ripple and filter requirements. The main advantages of the new inverter topology are: (1) the negative polarity of the PV is directly connected to the grid, so no leakage current, (2) voltage stress of all switches are the same and equal to the dc-link voltage, (3) reactive power can be send to the grid, so no problem of reactive power compensation (4) peak of output ac voltage is equal to input dc-voltage (unlike NPC, ANPC and some topologies, which requires two times of the peak ac-voltage magnitude) and, (5) the flying capacitor charges every switching cycle, which reduces the size of the required capacitor with switching frequency. In addition, industry standard half bridge module can be used in the new inverter without any modification. Experimental results of 1 kW prototype are presented at the end of the paper to prove the concept and theoretical analysis of the proposed transformerless inverter. The peak efficiency of the inverter at a full load is 99.2%.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124436106","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}
M. Manbachi, H. Farhangi, A. Palizban, S. Arzanpour
{"title":"Community Energy Storage impacts on smart grid adaptive Volt-VAR Optimization of distribution networks","authors":"M. Manbachi, H. Farhangi, A. Palizban, S. Arzanpour","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to investigate Community Energy Storage (CES) impacts on AMI-based Volt-VAR Optimization (VVO) solutions for advanced distribution networks. CES is one of the technologies employed to improve system stability, reliability and quality. As such, it could have considerable impacts on voltage control, reactive power optimization and energy conservation. Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) is one of the main tasks of advanced VVO engines in distribution networks. Moreover, in order to check the performance of the discussed VVO engine in the presence of CES during peak time intervals, 33-node distribution feeder is employed. The results of this paper show significant improvement in the performance of the VVO engine when CES is forced to discharge in peak times. Moreover, the results present how CES could affect Volt-VAR Control Component (VVCC) switching and how it affects the energy conservation efficiency.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116672647","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":"Optimal switching sequence based control of a differential-mode inverter","authors":"Debanjan Chatterjee, S. Mazumder","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527063","url":null,"abstract":"Power electronic systems are gaining widespread importance in contemporary world due to the extensive integration of renewable energy resources into grid. As a consequence of grid integration of renewable energy sources, developing robust control methods for inverters have gained paramount importance, since the control scheme that we apply plays an important role in ensuring stability and good performance of the inverters. Taking this into account, we have designed an optimal switching sequence based controller (OSBC) which ensures stability and robustness of a differential-mode inverter (DMI), which is based on Ćuk topology. The controller, so designed, responded well to large signal perturbations under varying operating conditions. The control scheme developed provides good steady state and transient response. The control leads to the rapid convergence of the input inductor current to its reference resulting in fast convergence of the output voltage to its reference ass well.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127302654","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":"Modern controller approaches for stabilizing constant power loads within a DC microgrid while considering system delays","authors":"B. Grainger, Qinhao Zhang, G. Reed, Z.-H. Mao","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527001","url":null,"abstract":"Requirements and challenges associated with the microgrid are primarily focused upon controller design, communications, standard compliment, and medium voltage power converter design. The growth of power electronic load regulation creates circumstances for constant power load behavior to arise in microgrid power systems. Constant power loads have an inherent destabilizing effect where linear and nonlinear control approaches have been proposed to resolve this problem. In this article, a set of powerful, linear modern control approaches are used to account for unstable poles integral to the constant power load and non-minimum phase zeros provided by system time delays. An examination is conducted by using model matching techniques to handle the negative incremental impedance of the load and time delay developed between the local measurement and controller action to deliver power to the load.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123702690","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":"Three-phase reactive power control using one-cycle controller for wind energy conversion systems","authors":"Snehal Bagawade, Majid Pahlevani, S. Pan, P. Jain","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527103","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new power factor correction scheme for a three phase wind energy conversion systems (WECSs). The proposed scheme provides power factor correction (PFC) with respect to the back-EMF of a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) instead of the terminal voltage. Since there exists a series impedance between the back-EMF and terminal voltage, performing PFC with respect to the terminal voltage leads to the additional reactive power generated by the back EMF. This additional reactive power degrades the capacity of the generator. In this paper, a novel three-phase reactive power control technique based on the one-cycle control scheme is presented in order to eliminate the need for additional reactive power. In the proposed technique, the terminal voltage and current of each phase are measured and the optimal power factor is regulated at the generator's terminals. The optimal reactive power is determined in the proposed control scheme by introducing a fictitious reactive current, derived from the input voltage, in the control law. The simulation and experimental results show the optimal performance of the proposed technique in terms of reactive power.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122686444","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. Anvari‐Moghaddam, J. Guerrero, A. Rahimi-Kian, M. Mirian
{"title":"Optimal real-time dispatch for integrated energy systems: An ontology-based multi-agent approach","authors":"A. Anvari‐Moghaddam, J. Guerrero, A. Rahimi-Kian, M. Mirian","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7526997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7526997","url":null,"abstract":"With the emerging of small-scale integrated energy systems (IESs), there are significant potentials to increase the functionality of a typical demand-side management (DSM) strategy and typical implementation of building-level distributed energy resources (DERs). By integrating DSM and DERs into a cohesive, networked package that fully utilizes smart energy-efficient end-use devices, advanced building control/automation systems, and integrated communications architectures, it is possible to efficiently manage energy and comfort at the end-use location. In this paper, an ontology-driven multi-agent control system with intelligent optimizers is proposed for optimal real-time dispatch of an integrated building and microgrid system considering coordinated demand response (DR) and DERs management. The optimal dispatch problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programing problem (MINLP) and solved through an agent-based approach. Several computer simulations are also presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach over the conventional methods.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114248628","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":"Managing distribution feeder voltage issues caused by high PV penetration","authors":"D. Divan, R. Moghe, Hong Chun","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527047","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows a novel approach to managing distribution feeder voltage volatility that is caused by high levels of distributed PV penetration, and achieves this goal without using expensive energy storage, removing what is perhaps the most challenging constraint to higher levels of PV hosting. The results are validated with detailed simulations of various alternative approaches, and with preliminary field results.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131727248","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":"Active and reactive power compensation of Data Center using Multi-Level STATCOM Inverter","authors":"S. Mondal","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527002","url":null,"abstract":"Data Center (DC) is one of the largest and fastest growing consumers of electricity in the world. In 2013, US DCs consumed an estimated 91 billion kWhr of electricity - enough electricity to power all the households in NY City twice over - and are on-track to reach 140 billion kWhr by 2020 [1]. Paper presents development of `Multi-Level Static Synchronous Compensator Inverter' (MLSTATCOMI) for DC application using Space vector PWM (SVPWM) based digital controller at Medium Voltage (MV) application. MV operation reduces overall electrical losses and reduces Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of DC. Reactive power STATCOM compensator along with battery energy storage provides active power compensation also. Capacitor voltage balancing of ML inverter is not an issue with reactive power STATCOM compensator as active power transfer is almost zero. Capacitor voltage balance depends on net transfer of active power between Inverter DC-link voltage source and AC grid source [2]. Capacitor voltage balancing is an issue of MLSTATCOMI compensator as it needs to compensate both active and reactive power. DSP and FPGA based SVPWM digital controller is developed to compensate simultaneous active and reactive power compensation. ML capacitor voltage balancing is achieved by developing a unique switching sequence of Inverter space vectors. The modulator performance using SVPWM control strategy can be extended to five-level inverter using space vector [3] for DC application.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134485081","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}
R. Davoodnezhad, D. G. Holmes, B. Mcgrath, A. Vahidnia
{"title":"Self-synchronising stator terminal control of permanent magnet synchronous generators for wind energy conversion systems","authors":"R. Davoodnezhad, D. G. Holmes, B. Mcgrath, A. Vahidnia","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527046","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional wind energy conversion systems (WECS) typically employ rotor side synchronous frame current control strategies to regulate the active/reactive power supplied by the WECS generator. Such strategies require accurate information regarding the rotor position and speed in order to set the dq frame reference currents and to perform the necessary frame transformations. This information can be obtained using a rotor speed sensor (i.e. a shaft encoder) or via a sensor-less strategy in which a dynamic machine model and stator current measurements are used to estimate the true rotor position. This paper now presents an alternative approach to control the active/reactive power supplied by the WECS permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG). The proposed strategy uses the three phase converter modulation commands to identify the phase and frequency of the PMSG stator terminal voltages. This enables the direct regulation of the real and reactive power extracted at the PMSG terminal voltages using a stationary frame Proportional + Resonant (PR) stator current regulation strategy, without requiring precise knowledge of the rotor position. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) functions are realized using the measured PMSG terminal voltage frequency to form an estimate of the rotor speed. The result is a simple robust WECS control strategy that rapidly and accurately tracks rotor speed changes caused by wind speed variations. Detailed simulation and experimental results obtained for a scaled laboratory prototype system are presented to validate the proposed strategy.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"252 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115616479","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":"Stator-flux-linkage-referenced control and online optimization of a doubly-fed induction generator","authors":"David R. Kastelan, J. Rudolph, A. Gensior","doi":"10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2016.7527096","url":null,"abstract":"A trajectory-tracking controller with shaft load torque estimator is presented for a doubly-fed induction generator using the backstepping approach. Trajectory generation is straightforward since the nominal system model is flat. The machine controller is designed in stator-flux-linkage-referenced coordinates to exploit the relationship between a single rotor current component and generated torque. While the stator flux linkage is not explicitly controlled, it is shown to converge to a reference due to inherent internal system damping. As such, its angle may be used for loss minimization purposes since it is shown to influence the distribution of reactive currents in the system. The presented approach is evaluated with numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":156411,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124391703","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}