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An average power sharing control strategy for parallel operation of voltage source inverter (VSI) based modular Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPSs) is proposed in this paper. The presented method is based on a modified droop control. The proposed method conquers the drawback of conventional droop plus virtual impedance control, and at the same time some challenges in the real applications have been...
Microgrids rely on energy management levels to optimally schedule their components. Conventionally, the research in this field has been focused on the optimal formulation of the generation or the demand side management separately without considering real case scenarios and validated only by simulation. This paper presents the power scheduling of a real site microgrid under a price-based demand response...
One of the major feature of DC microgrids is its high penetration of power electronic converters, as a result, the system inertia becomes a problem. In this paper, an admittance-type droop control with additional capability of introducing virtual inertia to the system. With the proposed method, each energy source will also contribute virtual inertia to the system, thus improving transient response...
A novel control strategy which enables proportional linear and nonlinear loads sharing among paralleled inverters and voltage harmonic suppression is proposed in this paper. The proposed method is based on the autonomous currents sharing controller (ACSC) instead of conventional power droop control to provide fast transient response, decoupling control and large stability margin. The current components...
The external droop control loop of I-V droop control is designed as a voltage loop with embedded virtual impedance, so the internal current loop plays a major role in the system bandwidth. Thus, in this paper, the influence of internal current loop on transient response performance of I-V droop controlled paralleled dc-dc converters is analyzed, which is guided and significant for its industry application...
Recently, DC distribution has been more and more considered in shipbuilding industry as an emerging solution due to its potential to enhance the system performance in terms of fuel economy, reliability, volume and weight. Moreover, there is a growing trend to integrate alternative power sources (APSs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) into next-generation ships, and thus reducing cost and emission...
In this paper, an improved grid voltage modulated control (GVM) with power compensation is proposed for grid-connected voltage inverters when the grid voltage is unbalanced. The objective of the proposed control is to remove the power ripple and to improve current quality. Three power compensation objectives are selected to eliminate the negative sequence components of currents. The modified GVM method...
Voltage and frequency transient variations are the most common power quality issues in a ship microgrid system. In this paper, the impacts of the voltage dips induced by the sudden-load of ballast pump are analyzed in detail for the ship power systems. Several relevant ship power quality standards and potential solutions are introduced and discussed properly. The experimental tests from a real ship...
The use of LCL filters is a well accepted solution to attenuate the harmonics created by the pulsewidth modulation (PWM). However, inherently LCL filters have a resonance region where the unwanted harmonics are amplified, which can compromise instability. Active damping strategies are implemented as a countermeasure. This paper analyses the robustness of the closed-loop dynamics when different active...
In this paper a new method is presented to achieve economic exploitation and proper usage of network capacity by exerting controlling actions over flexible loads and energy storage (ES) equipment. Multi-objective planning for demand response programs (DRP) and battery management policies is carried out by considering energy not supplied (ENS). In order to achieve an optimal scheduling, charge/discharge...
As the intelligent control and detection technology improving, more and more smart devices/sensors can be used to increase the living standard. In order to integrate the Internet of Things (IoT) with microgrid (MG), an enhanced hierarchical control strategy for IoT-based home scale MG is proposed in this paper. Physical smart devices/sensors and inverters are defined at the primary level. Electrical...
Smart metering devices have become an essential part in the development of the current electrical network toward the paradigm of Smart Grid. These meters present in most of the cases, functionalities whose analysis capabilities go further beyond the basic automated meter readings for billing purposes, integrating home or building area networks (HAN/BAN), alarms and power quality indicators in some...
The lack of interoperability is considered as the most important barrier to achieve the global integration of Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems across borders of different disciplines, vendors and standards. Indeed, the current IoT landscape consists of a large set of isolated islands that do not constitute a real Internet, preventing the exploitation of the huge potential expected by Information...
This paper presents a study of the potential energy savings by implementing dc distribution systems for residential applications. In general, it is commonly accepted that the use of dc voltage improves the efficiency of the distribution, due to a decrease in the conduction losses and an efficiency improvement in the power converter units. However, for residential applications, the efficiency is not...
This paper proposes real-time Energy Management System (EMS) for a residential hybrid ac/dc microgrid. The residential microgrid is organized in two different distribution systems. A dc distribution bus which interconnect the renewable energy sources (RES), energy storage systems (ESS) and the building's common facilities; while the apartments are supplied by an ac distribution system connected to...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming a key feature of smart grids. EVs will be embedded in the smart grids as a mobile load-storage with probabilistic behavior. In order to manage EVs as flexible loads, charging stations (CSs) have essential roles. In this paper, a new method for optimal sitting and sizing of solar CSs using energy storage (ES) options is presented. Also, behavior of EVs in the presence...
In the Low-Voltage (LV) AC microgrids (MGs), with a relatively high R/X ratio, virtual impedance is usually adopted to improve the performance of droop control applied to Distributed Generators (DGs). At the same time, LV DC microgrid using virtual impedance as droop control is emerging without adequate power flow studies. In this paper, power flow analyses for both AC and DC microgrids are formulated...
A dynamic consensus algorithm-based coordinated secondary control with an autonomous current-sharing control strategy is proposed in this paper for balancing discharge rate of energy storage systems (ESSs) in an islanded AC microgrid. The dynamic consensus algorithm is applied for information sharing between distributed generation (DG) units in order to regulate the output power of DGs according to...
In order to control the neutral point voltage of inverter with discontinuous PWM (DPWM), this paper proposed a generalized discontinuous PWM (GDPWM) based neutral point voltage balancing method for three level neutral point clamped (NPC) voltage source inverter (VSI). Firstly, a triangle carrier based (TCB-GDPWM) is proposed. Secondly, the affection on neutral point voltage for the modulation wave...
Due to the increasing need to reduce the cost and emission of ships, shipboard applications are calling advanced technologies to go onboard. Recently, cleaner power sources (i.e. gas turbines, fuel cell, solar and wind power), energy storage, advanced control and power/energy management are introduced to meet the new requirement, and therefore, making shipboard power system more like a microgrid....
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