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This paper describes a method to provide LV four-wire three-phase power converters with the capability of correcting unbalance as an ancillary service to the main role that they play in the distribution system (distributed generator, energy storage system, drive, etc). Typically, dedicated grid/load current sensors are needed to effectively comply with unbalance compensation tasks, increasing system...
This paper deals with the AC and DC dynamic voltage control in a hybrid DC/AC Microgrid (MG) with central and distributed Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs), applying a power sharing mechanism between the different devices in the MG. The MG is composed by a multiport transformation center and two fixed frequency 3 phase AC Nanogrids (NGs) coupled to a DC bus through 3-phase Power Electronic Converters...
This paper proposes a novel frequency-based predictive sequence extractor that allows to isolate the harmonic components of both voltages and currents needed for the control of grid-tied converters. The proposed method is based on a modification of the Sliding Goertzel Transformation (SGT) that allows to include a predictive behavior with a prediction horizon equal to the processing window needed...
Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET power module has become commercially available in the past few years, and it is attractive in solid state transformers (SSTs) applications to replace Silicon (Si)-based IGBTs. This paper is focused on the efficiency comparison between a SiC MOSFET-based three-port active bridge converter (TAB) and a Si IGBT-based approach. The efficiency of the overall system, being one...
This paper is focused on establishing a procedure for measuring the efficiency dependency on the switching frequency for a solid state transformer (SST), being one of the ports connected to an energy storage device (Lithium-Ion battery). Multiple contributions for measuring the efficiency/losses for different power converter structures for energy storage applications can be found in the literature...
This contribution explores the possibility of improving the global efficiency of three-phase inverter-based distributed resources (DR) embedded in low-voltage (LV) distribution feeders, by the adaptation of their switching frequency (SF) to the operation point of both the converter and local loads. The core of this proposal lies on the fact that in a good number of applications, in both services and...
This work proposes a non-isolated power electronic topology to interface two distinct electrical energy storage units to a DC link, resulting in a Hybrid Storage System. The proposed solution, called Series-Parallel Connection, allows for interfacing these three ports in a simple, compact and reliable approach, based on the standard configuration of the H-bridge converter. The main advantage is that...
This work focuses on the control strategies for different configurations of Non-Isolated Hybrid Energy Storage Systems. Basic strategies are proposed, studied and compared. Parting from the standard parallel connection of bidirectional boost converter in hybrid storage systems, a comparison with alternate topologies is presented. These alternative schemes overcome the problems that arise in the original...
This paper deals with the estimation and decoupling of grid impedance and LCL filter parameters variation using signal injection techniques and Luenberger type observer. When integrating a power converter in the AC grid as an interface for any Distributed Generation Systems (DGS) or other grid quality compensator like Active Power Filters (APF) or STATCOM, inner control loop normally requires current...
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