Inter national J our nal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) V ol. 7, No. 1, February 2017, pp. 86 99 ISSN: 2088-8708 86       I ns t it u t e  o f  A d v a nce d  Eng ine e r i ng  a nd  S cie nce   w     w     w       i                       l       c       m     Contr ol of an A utonomous Hybrid Micr ogrid as Ener gy Sour ce f or a Small Rural V illage Am ´ erico J oaquim Lampi ˜ ao * , T omonob u Senjyu * , and Atsushi Y ona * * F aculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering * Uni v ersity of the Ryuk yus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Nakag ami, Okina w a, 903-0213, Japan Article Inf o Article history: Recei v ed Oct 7, 2016 Re vised Dec 11, 2016 Accepted Dec 24, 2016 K eyw ord: Microgrid Utility grid Photo v oltaic system Battery ener gy system Po wer balance ABSTRA CT No w adays, the e xhaustion of electricity po wer in rural areas is becoming an important issue for man y African Nations. Moreo v er , challenges include the high cost of e xtend- ing the po wer grid to these locations, the economic health of the utilities and lack of re v enue in impo v erished vil lages. Numerous ne w initiat i v es are being implemented in the countries some of them co-financed by international or g anizati ons. In this paper , the h ybrid microgrid is carried out as a feasible solution for a small rural village. A model of h ybrid microgrid consisting of combination of photo v oltaic (PV) panels and battery ene r gy storage (BES) and a control system for managing t he components of en- tire system to feed the village as local load is proposed. The control system must a v oid the interruptions of po wer deli v ered to the consumers (village) and, therefore, good quality and reliability of the system is required. The PI controllers are used to re gu- late the v oltage and current using three-phase dq transformation, whi le the parameters are determined using Zie gler -Nichols tuning method. The ef fecti v eness of the pro- posed method is v erified by simulation results gi v en by Matlab/SimPo werSystems R en vironment. Copyright c 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science . All rights r eserved. Corresponding A uthor: Am ´ erico Joaquim Lampi ˜ ao Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Uni v ersity of the Ryuk yus 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Okina w a, 903-0213, Japan T el: +81-98-895-8686, +258-84-438-3831 Email: americo.lampiao@gmail.com 1. INTR ODUCTION Ov er 620 million people in Africa still do not ha v e access to the electricity [1]. As kno wn, elec tricity is an essential contrib utor to the well-being of people and a k e y point of economic betterment for an y country in the w orld. In 2001, the US National Academy of Engineers (N AE) v oted ”electrification” as the most significant engineering achie v ement of the past century . According the w orldwide calculation of electric consumption at present, approximately 1.4 billion people more than 20 percent population all o v er the w orld does not ha v e access to electric connection and mostly li v e in rural areas in Africa [2]. The biggest challenges surrounding ener gy in this locations is the high cost to e xtend the po wer grid from main to these locations. Ne w initiati v es are being implemented using rene w able ener gy source, b ut impro v ements are still required [3]. In this paper , a model of autonomous h ybrid microgrid supplying a small rural village as local load and the respecti v e controller is proposed to demonstrate their feasibil ity solution in rural villages. The h ybrid source is a combined PV panels and Battery storage, connected to the load through v oltage source in v erter (VSI), filter and isolating transformer . The loads are typically rural such as mills, w ater pumps for irrig ation, and small houses with one or tw o compartments. The households mainly use the fire w ood for cooking, therefore, small po wer for each house is e xpected. The use of PV panels as rene w able ener gy has adv antages due the en vironmental re gulation protection, b ut the generated po wer changes according the temperature and solar radiation [4]-[6]. This f act J ournal Homepage: http://iaesjournal.com/online/inde x.php/IJECE       I ns t it u t e  o f  A d v a nce d  Eng ine e r i ng  a nd  S cie nce   w     w     w       i                       l       c       m     DOI:  10.11591/ijece.v7i1.12900 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 87 generates stability , reliability and po wer quality problems at the consumers [7]-[11]. The battery is used to o v ercome the intermittent and uncertain of the photo v oltaic (PV) g e neration [13]. The PV system is composed by PV panels and DC/DC boost con v erter . In order to maximize the ef ficienc y of the PVs and maintain the v oltage at the DC-link, a combination of MPPT (maximum po wer point tracking) and DC/DC boost con v erter is used. The MPPT uses an algorithm to maintain the generated po wer at maximum point [11-13]. Depending on the PV generation and load demand, the battery may operate at either char ging or dischar ging mode. In dischar ging mode, the battery w orks as po wer source and injects po wer to the in v erter and, therefore mak es balance between generation and load po wer demand. In char ge mode, the battery recei v es the po wer from PV system. These achie v ements are possible by using a DC/DC bidirectional con v erter . The VSI is used to interf ace the DC-side with A C-side and, therefore, to con v ert DC current to A C with appropriate natural frequenc y . The in v erter operates in high frequenc y (around 5-20 kHz), and causes harmonic distortions in output current [17]-[21], therefore, in this study a filter harmonics will be tak en into account. In this paper , an isolating transformer rated at 100 kV A, to step-up the l ine v oltage from 230 V to 380 V , is used. In addition, po wer supply companies demand this for the elimination o f possible zero sequence or DC components in the generated v oltages and for increased protection it af fords [9]. This f act can be used as an adv antage since the transformer can form part of a filter impedance and may , therefore, reduce the undesired harmonic content of the output current. Po wer quality standards for connection of an in v erter to the load are still under de v elopment, since pre viously there ha v e been fe w simi lar high po wer electronic applications. In this study the important aspect of po wer quality is harmonic distortion. General requirements for harmonic distortion can be found in standards IEEE [1547.1-1547.8]. The control solution proposed, pro vides high quality of current deli v ered to the consumers and, there- fore, high po wer qu a lity . In addition, acti v e and reacti v e po wer control is pro vided. The choice of control v ariables are based on standards, re gulations and procedures presented in scientific publications. PLL (phase lock ed loop) and PI controllers w as used to accomplish the po wer management of the system using dq syn- chronous reference. The parameters w as determined us ing Zie gler -Nichols tuning method. Ov er the years, considerable research has been conducted on current and v oltage re gulation in microgrids, and v arious ap- proaches ha v e been proposed. In this paper a re vie w of the latest journal and conference papers related to the control in microgrids are carried out to demonstrate the v alidity of the proposed method, performed using MA TLAB/ SimPo wer Systems R . Simulation results demonstrate the ef fecti v eness of proposed controller and, therefore, can be used to analyse microgrids connections. The rest of the section in this paper is or g anized as follo ws: In Section II, the proposed model is presented and the main components including control methodology are described. In Section III the discussion of the simulation results to sho w the ef fecti v eness of the proposed system is presented. Finally , conclusions are dra wn in Section IV . 2. RESEARCH METHOD The methodology adopted in this study , is proposing the schematic configuration of the model to be implement ed and sim u l ated using Matlab/Simulink en vironment. The components are described and the simulation results are presented. The conclusion is based on the presented results. Figure 1, sho ws the proposed model, and the description are presented belo w . 2.1. PV System The PV array used in this paper acts as an input source for char ging the battery as well as supplying to the A C load during normal conditions. The basic equation of a PV panel is presented in [12]. T able 2, sho ws the constant v alues for the standard stat e of each PV panel as used in the present study . As mentioned in pre vie w chapters, the PV generates intermittent po wer due the v ariation of sun’ s radiation and cell temperature. In order to maximize the po wer and maintain the v oltage in DC-link at required le v el (400 V), a combined MPPT and DC/DC boost con v erter are used. The MPPT aims at using an algorithm to ensure the arr ay to operate at the maximum po wer point [6]. There are man y dif ferent MPPT methods. Perturbation and Observ ation (P&O) method is used most widely since it is much simpler and needs fe wer measured v ariables as input. In this study P&O w as used and performed according [4]. Contr ol of an A utonomous Hybrid Micr o grid as Ener gy Sour ce for a Small ... (Am ´ erico J . Lampi ˜ ao) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
88 ISSN: 2088-8708 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1    R        L 1        PV_array BESS       CB m DC            MPPT     Boost converter          3-Phase VSI               R D         Cf         Clink          230 / 380V  DC     Rural Village Ch = Chopper circuit    DC    AC                DC   DC Bidirection DC/DC converter Ch House 1 House 3 House 2 House 4 House 5 House 6 50Hz, 380V,  ± 100kVA Scan: Voltage Current Fig. 1. Proposed system topology . 2.2. Battery Ener gy Storage System (BESS) The battery is required to impro v e the system performance of microgrid and mak e the balance between the genera ted po wer and load po wer demand t hroug h char ge/dischar ge ener gy to or from this storage [8]. In this paper , the battery model is Lithium-Ion tak en from the MA TLAB/Simulink tools with a nominal v oltage of 310 V . The initial state of char ge (SOC) of the model can be set according to the need of the simulation. The simulation parameters are sho wn in T able 1. The battery is connected at the DC-link through a DC/DC bidirectional con v erter . The objecti v e of this con v erter is to maintain the v oltage on DC-link (400 V) and to operate the system in order to char ge/dischar ge the battery according the dif ferent situations. In char ge mode the PV generates more than required po wer and, therefore, the e xtra po wer must stored in the battery . In dischar ge mode, the PV generates less than required po wer , then the batt ery injects po wer to balance the generated po wer with load po wer demand. Figure 2, sho ws the schematic configuration of bidirectional con v ert er and the parameters are achie v ed according [11], and [15]. T able 1. P arameters of the Battery model. P arameter V alue Nominal V oltage [V] 310 Rated Capacity [Ah] 8.2 Fully Char ged V oltage [V] 360.836 Nominal current [A] 7.4157 Initial State-of-Char ge [%] 80 2.3. DC-b us dynamics and pr otection A chopper circuit is used in DC-link to dissipate e xcess po wer during f ault condition or o v er v oltage. If the DC-link v oltage e xceeds the maximum limit (425 V), the DC-link will be short-circuited through the resistor r c and the e xcess of po wer will be dissipated in this resist or , then the DC-link v oltage will be maintained. A common capacitor C l ink is installed in parallel with chopper circuit as sho wn in Figure 2. In this study , the v alue of r c is 300 . 2.4. In v erter characteristics The role of po wer electronics con v erter is v ery important in rene w able ener gy systems [11]. In this study , the in v erter is set-up in accordance with the circuit sho wn in Figure 2. An IGBT six pack is modelled and controlled in order t o achie v e the required obje cti v es. The space- v ect or (SV) po wer width m o dul ation (PWM) technique is used to produce the switching control signals to be applied at three-phase in v erter . IJECE V ol. 7, No. 1, February 2017: 86 99 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 89 D 1 Q p   C link     Ip=Ipv PV_array PWM MPPT Ipv  Vpv Vdc* Vpv Lp Boost controller Ih Ic Ie L b Ib Ib PWM  Vdc* Battery controller B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 Vdc     Ib   Ib*  AND Qb 2 Qb 1   b1      b2 BESS Q 6 Q 2 Q 1 Q 5 Q 4 Q 3    a    b c  PI 1  Ird  Q c    rc R 1 L 1 R 2 L 2 C f R D LCL Filter Winding Tr. Chopper    Vdc  PI 2        Vdc  PI 3       I cf   ON/OFF          O          O          O          O n       Vc f    <  AND  NOT SOC 85%   CB p    I 1    I 2    Load (Village) Fig. 2. Detailed system configuration. 2.5. Harmonics filter and isolating transf ormer In this study , a LC filter combined with equi v alent impedance of isolating transformer is used to reduce the harmonics distortions in output in v erter . The final configuration is a LCL filter which the components are determined based on [17]. The primary object i v e of isolating transformer is to step-up the line v oltage from 230 V to 380 V (nominal load v oltage). The parameters are presented in T able 3. 2.6. Load characteristics The main use of electricity is e xpected to be for lights, mills, bars, w ater pump for irrig ation, and of fice in village center . The load v ari es according the season and time. F or e xample, during the rain season the use of w ater pumps are not required for irrig ation, and therefore the load po wer is sm all. In thi s s tudy , the estimated maximum load po wer is assumed 100 kV A and the line v oltage and natural frequenc y is 380 V and 50 Hz, respecti v ely . T able 2. PV panel constants. P arameters V alue P arameters V alue Short-circuit current I sc 8.36 A Number of cells per module N cel l s 54 Open circuit v oltage V oc 33.20 V Number of panels in series N s 14 V oltage at maximum po wer point V mpp 26.3 V Number of panels in parallel N p 80 Current at maximum po wer point I mpp 7.61 A Diode quality f actor A 1.5 T emperature coef ficient of I sc 0.00502 Series resistance R s 0.16 Elementary char ge q 1.6 10 19 C P arallel resistance R p 1010.60 Boltzmanns constant B 1.38 10 23 Ener gy g ap E g 1.2 V 3. CONTR OL OF THE SYSTEM The o v erall control structure consists of a DC-link v oltage controller and a line current controller . T o supply a line current with lo w distortion, the connection to the grid is made by an A C filter [17] which consists of combination of LC and equi v alent impedance of isol ating transformer used to boost the line v oltage from Contr ol of an A utonomous Hybrid Micr o grid as Ener gy Sour ce for a Small ... (Am ´ erico J . Lampi ˜ ao) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
90 ISSN: 2088-8708 230 V to 380 V . The final configuration is LCL filter , as sho wn in Figure 2. The control is made in dq reference and PLL is used to re gulate the system frequenc y . In order to achie v e good performance of control parameters, the poles and zeros of transfer function w as v erified. 3.1. Contr ol of Boost and Bidir ectional DC/DC con v erters The linearisation of boost and bidirectional DC/DC con v erters are analysed and presented in [8] and [15]. From this analysis, the v oltage and current transfer functions are gi v en by: G ( v ) = b V out b d = L (1 D ) 2 V in s + R V in R LC s 2 + Ls + R (1 D ) 2 (1) G ( i ) = b I in b d = V in (1 D ) (2 + R C s ) R LC s 2 + Ls + R (1 D ) 2 (2) where V out is reference output v oltage (400 V), V in is input v oltage, I in is the induct o r current, L is inductor , C is common capacitor in DC-link, D is the duty c ycle and R is the equi v alent load resistor . The details about this task is presented in [11]. In this paper , the equation (1) and (2) w as used to design the DC/DC boost controller and DC/DC bidirectional con v erter . As mentioned in abo v e chapters, Zie gler -Nichols tuning method w as used to achie v e the control parameters. Figures 4(b) and -(d), sho w the tuning block diagrams of v oltage and current. The inductances of boost and bidirectional con v erters used in this study are 3 mH and 1 mH, respecti v ely . 3.2. DC-link v oltage r egulator The purpose of the DC-link v oltage controller is to preserv e the DC-link v oltage at its reference v alue ( V dc ) and to pro vide the reference po wer ( P e ). T o design the DC-link v oltage re gulator , the follo wing assumptions are considered. The grid v oltage amplitude is constant; Using rotary ax es dq , the grid v oltage V g coincides with d -axis; The unity po wer f actor is required, then the displ acement between the grid v oltage and current is zero. Their q -axis components are also zeros. F or an accurate control model, it w as made a linearisation in DC-side. Figure 2, sho ws the schematic config- uration. In normal condition the g ate of IGBT ( Q c ) recei v es the signal zero, meaning that the chopper circui t is opened and no current is flo wing through dump-resistor . Ne glecting the chopper circuit, the DC side of the in v erter can be described as follo ws: 8 > > > < > > > : i h = i e + i c i e = a i a + b i b + c i c i c = C l ink v dc dt P h = i h v dc (3) where i c is current through the DC-link capacitor , P h is a v ailable h ybrid acti v e po wer at s pecific solar radiation and SOC, C l ink is DC-link capacitor , i h is the h ybrid current, V dc is v oltage in DC-link, i e is the current deli v ered to the in v erter (which is a function of the line currents i a ; i b ; i c , and the states of the po wer -poles a ; b ; c (1: ’on’, 0:’of f ’, i n + upper pole, i n lo wer pole in the 3-phase VSI). T o achie v e steady state operation the supplied DC po wer of the P h and the A C po wer for load must be balanced. The DC v oltage controller gi v es the set point of the A C po wer . Assuming, in this paper , that there is no po wer losses in the in v erter , if only acti v e po wer is to be injected into the grid (load): ( P e P g = 3 V g I g = 3 2 V g d I g d Q e 0 (4) The generated h ybrid po wer and the link capacitor po wer are e xpressed by equations (3) and (4), respecti v ely: P hy br id = I h V dc (5) IJECE V ol. 7, No. 1, February 2017: 86 99 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 91   v id      ω L  i d,ref   PI 4 Id,max Id,min Vdc*      ω L Viq,max Viq,min  v q   i q,ref Isq,max Isq,min Q,ref  v d id i q i d i q   Vdc Q  v iq   Q v  SVPWM dq   abc   abc   dq   abc   dq v d v q i d i q  Dump load   Controller V dc(max)    Vid,max Vid,min   Vdc   Vdc   rd    IGBT  Clink  PLL i e φ Pcc   PI 6   PI 7   PI 5 ~380V   50Hz Fig. 3. Control scheme of the grid-side in v erter . P capacitor = C l ink V dc dV dc dt (6) The VSI losses are ne glected, then the follo wing relationship is v erified: P g r id = P hy br id P capacitor (7) F ollo wing equations (3) to (7), the relation between DC-link v oltage and the grid current e xpressed in rotary axis is obtained: V dc = 1 C l ink s ( I h 3 2 V g d V dc I g d ) (8) where V g or V s is the reference phase v oltage in output in v erter (132.8 V). The DC-link v oltage is re gulated imposing a reference in the acti v e current component ( I g d ). A v oltage v ariation in the DC-link is compensated by changing the A C line acti v e currents, in such a w ay that t h e DC-link is k ept at the est ablished v alue (400 V). The PIs are used as re gulators and their parameters are achie v ed by using Zie gler -Nichols tuning method. The DC-link v oltage control loop is presented in Figure 4(b). 3.3. VSI and Grid curr ent contr oller The output current controller consists of a model based on LCL filter configuration, as sho wn in Figure 2. According Kirchhof f s rules, we obtain the equations: ! v i ! i 1 R 1 L 1 d ! i 1 dt ! i c R d ! v cf = 0 (9) ! v s + ! i 2 R 2 + L 2 d ! i 2 dt ! i c R d ! v cf = 0 (10) ! i c = ! i 1 ! i 2 (11) The equi v alent equations of (9), (10) and (11) can be described as: d dt ! i 1 = ( R d + R 1 ) ( L 1 ) ! i 1 + R d L 1 ! i 2 + 1 L 1 ! v cf + 1 L 1 ! v i (12) d dt ! i 2 = ( R d + R 2 ) ( L 2 ) ! i 2 + R d L 2 ! i 1 + 1 L 2 ! v cf 1 L 2 ! v s (13) Contr ol of an A utonomous Hybrid Micr o grid as Ener gy Sour ce for a Small ... (Am ´ erico J . Lampi ˜ ao) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
92 ISSN: 2088-8708 d dt ! v cf = 1 C f ( ! i 1 ! i 2 ) (14) where, ! i 1 = [ i 1 a i 1 b i 1 c ] t is the output current at filter , ! i 2 = [ i 2 a i 2 b i 2 c ] t is the current injected to the grid; ! v cf = [ v cf a v cf b v cf c ] t is the v oltage in capacitor C f . The control system is made by using v oltage and current measurements. In order to reduce the number of measurement sensors, and therefore, minimizing the cost of project, we consider only tw o sensors to detect v oltage and current. The basic control principles used in this paper are generally based on the decoupled current control presented in [17], and [18]. The three-phase v oltage on load b us is measured and transformed into a dq reference frame ( v d and v q ). The three-phase current o wing between the loads and the in v erter is measured and transformed to i d and i q . W ith the comparisons of the dq components to their respecti v e references , the resulting errors are sent to the PI controllers to generate the required output v oltage of the in v erter . In order to f acilitate the equation analysis, man y researches mak e approximations such that the output current in v erter is assumed equal with the output current at the filter ( i 1 i 2 ), because the current i c is v ery small [20]-[21]. Considering this approximations, the filter is analysed as R L and the parameters are the summation of filter impedance and equi v alent internal impedance of the transformer ( R t = R 1 + R 2 , and L t = L 1 + L 2 ). In this paper , this assumptions are used to achie v e the decoupled equations: d dt ! i 1 dq = " R t L t ! ! R t L t # ! i 1 dq 1 L 1 ! v s dq + 1 L 1 ! v i dq (15) where, ! is the system frequenc y in r ad=s . From (15) is obtained: V i d = ( R t + L t s ) I 1 d + V s d ! L t I 1 q (16) V i q = ( R t + L t s ) I 1 q + V s q + ! L t I 1 d (17) In equation (16) and (17), considering: V " d = ( R t + L t s ) I 1 d (18) V " q = ( R t + L t s ) I 1 q (19) The equi v alent equation become: V i d = V " d + V s d ! L t I 1 q (20) V i q = V " q + V s q + ! L t I 1 q (21) The plant is a first order system with transfer function G ( s ) = I 1 dq ( s ) V i dq ( s ) = 1 R t + sL t (22) The PI transfer function without deri v ati v e action is gi v en by: T s = K p + K i s = K p (1 + 1 T i s ) (23) Where T i = K p K i is inte gral time constant or reset tim e, K p and K i is proportional and inte gral g ains, respec- ti v ely . The goal of tuning method is to find the proper g ains in order to achie v e the required reference v alues. The block diagrams of control loops are sho wn in Figure 4(a) and -(c). 4. RESUL T AND AN AL YSIS In order to demonstrate the ef fecti v eness of the proposed control strate gy , a combined PV and BESS (h ybrid) connected to the load through three-phase VSI w as set up and simulated under three dif ferent scenarios using sampling time 20 s and time domain from 0 to 0.55 s. The temperature is assumed constant 25 o C and sudden changes of solar radiation w as implemented as input of PV panels. The initial SOC is 80 % in all scenarios. a) Case Study 1: This scenario aims to confirm the functionali ties of PV and BESS under solar v ariations to supply the load rated with po wer 100 kW . The simulation is carried out in sequence as follo ws: IJECE V ol. 7, No. 1, February 2017: 86 99 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 93 System transfer function   i dref / i qref   1       1/R t        Lt        Rt s Kp          1+Ti S          Ti         id / iq PI-Controller  V d’  / V q’ V / V q                 V dcref    1              1         C link .S        Kp           1+Ti S          Ti         PI-Controller System transfer function V dcref   1               Gv(s)     Equation (7) Kp          1+Ti  S          Ti         Vdc PI-Controller PWM + converter System transfer function  I Lref   1               Gi(s)     Equation (8) Kp          1+Ti  S          Ti          I L PI-Controller PWM + converter       2       3          Vgd     Vdc  I h PWM (a) (b) (c) (d) PWM + converter Fig. 4. Block diagrams of control loops. T able 3. Grid parameters and control g ains P arameters V alue P arameters V alue Filter inductance L 1 265 H Switching frequenc y f s 20 kHz Filter resistance R 1 40 m Natural frequenc y f 50 Hz Filter resistance R d 100 m Frequenc y modulation P W M 10 kHz Filter capacitor C f 300 C PI 4 = P I 5 [ K p ; K i ] [2.1, 253] T ransformer inductance L 2 185 H PI 6 = P I 7 [ K p ; K i ] [0.004, 0.21] T ransformer resistance R 2 25 m PI 1 [ K p ; K i ] [0.0006, 0.13] Dc-link capacitor C l ink 470 C PI 2 [ K p ; K i ] [0.0002, 0.18] Peak load po wer P l oad 100 kW PI 3 [ K p ; K i ] [0.0004, 0.21] At t =0.0 s, the simulation starts when the solar radiation is maximum (1 kW/m 2 ), therefore, the PV panels are generating m ore than required load po wer . In this case, the e xcess po wer is stored in battery . The maximum po wer injected to the in v erter is 115.15 kW , means that 100.0 kW is for load and 15.15 kW is total loss in in v erter , filter , transformer and lines. In that period the battery is recei ving po wer and therefore, the SOC rises gradually (char ging mode). At t =0.2 s, the solar radiation drops suddenly until 0.5 kW/m 2 and the PV panels start to generate l ess than required po wer . In that moment, the battery detects the problem and starts to inject the po wer to the in v erter in order to balance the generation with the load demand. Therefore, the battery starts to dischar ge and the SOC decreases gradually . At t =0.4 s, the solar radiation suddenly rises until (1 kW/m 2 ) and the PV panels starts ag ain to generate more than required po wer , then the battery changes from dischar ge to char ge mode. During this process, the DC-link v oltage, po wer injected in in v erter , v oltage, and load current are maintained at 400 V , 115.15 kW , 380 V and 300 A, respecti v ely as the graphics sho wn in Figure 5. b) Case Study 2: This scenario aims to confirm the functionalities of PV and BESS under load v ariation and solar radiation at 0.5 kW/m 2 . The simulation is carried out in sequence as follo ws: At t =0.0 s, the simulation starts when the load is 70.0 kW solar radiation at 0.5 kW/m 2 , therefore, the PV panels are generating more than required load po wer . In this case, the e xcess po wer is stored in battery . The system is injecting in in v erter 80.0 kW , meaning that an amount of po wer is to compensate the losses. In that period the battery is recei ving po wer and therefore, the SOC is increasing gradually . At t =0.2 s, the load increases until 100 kW , then in that time the load po wer becomes more than generated po wer . In order to compensate the generation, the battery starts to inject the po wer to mak e balance. While the batte ry is injecting po wer , the battery is being dischar ged and therefore, the SOC is gradually decreasing. At t =0.4 s, the load po wer suddenly drops then the battery changes from dischar ge to char ge mode in order to store the e xcess generated po wer . Figure 6(a), sho ws the beha viour of solar radiation, -(b) sho ws the v oltage on DC-link, -(c) sho ws the battery current, -(d) sho ws the SOC, -(e) sho ws the acti v e po wer injected in in v erter , -(e) and -(f) sho w the v oltage and current in load b us. c) Case Study 3: This scenario aims to confirm the functionalities of PV and BESS under f aults, load and solar v ariations. The simulation is carried out in sequence as follo ws: At t =0.0 s, the simulation starts when the all load is connected 100.0 kW and the solar radiation is maximum. The PV panels are generating more than required po wer . Therefore the e xcess po wer is store d in battery . At t =0.1 s, an instantaneous f ault occur on load b us and transients are observ ed. When the f ault is remo v ed, the system becomes stable. At t =0.15 s, some loads are disconnected from the grid and, therefore, the po wer injected in in v erter reduces until 70 kW . At t =0.2 s, a similar f ault occur in load b us and the transients are observ ed ag ain. When the f ault is remo v ed the system becomes stable. At t =0.25 s, all load is connect ed (100 kW) and therefore the injected po wer increases Contr ol of an A utonomous Hybrid Micr o grid as Ener gy Sour ce for a Small ... (Am ´ erico J . Lampi ˜ ao) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
94 ISSN: 2088-8708 too. At t =0.28 s, the solar radiation drops until 0.5 kW/m 2 and the battery starts to inject po wer to compensate the generated po wer according the load demand. At t =0.38 s and 0.48 s, inst antaneous f aults occur on load b us and transients are v erified. When the v oltage on DC-link e xceeds 425 V , the chopper circuit detects and an amount of po wer is suppressed by dump-load resistor in order to rapidly balance the v oltage. Figure 7, sho ws the graphics under study . This re sults demonstrate that the system is controllable and the v oltage and current deli v ered to the consumers ha v e good quality . Figure 7(f), sho ws the total harmonic distortion (THD=3.94 % ). 5. CONCLUSION This paper has proposed a model of autonomous h ybrid microgrid po wering through in v erter a small rural village and the design of respecti v e controller to re gulate the instantaneous output v oltage. The graphs obtained during the simulations, e xplain in detail the system’ s v ersatility in dif ferent operating condition. The system pro v es ho w a rene w able source of ener gy such as PV panels can w ork together with battery in microgrid to po wer local loads . Battery storage impro v es the reliability of the system by o v ercom ing the PV generation in order to balance with the load demand. The battery storage acts as DC load during char ge mode, and as DC source during dis char ge mode. The system w as accurately modelled using Matlab/simulink and the parameters ha v e been chosen according the standards and methodologi es presented in literatures. The simulation results demonstrate the ef fecti v eness of the proposed model and respecti v e control methodology . A CKNO WLEDGEMENT The authors are really e xpressing their gratitude to the Senjyu’ s Lab . members at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, for their contrib utions. REFERENCES [1] UN Document s Gathering a body of global agreements, Chapter 7 of the charter of the United Nations Signed in San Francisco, California on June, 1945. http://www .un-documents.net/k-002988.htm. [2] A. H. Khan, et al., ”A Noble Design of a DC Micro Grid for Rural Area in Bangladesh, International Journal of T echnology Enhancements and Emer ging Engineering Research , v ol. 3, pp. 19-26, 2015. [3] C. M arnay , et al., ”Optimal T echnology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids, IEEE T ransactions on Po wer Systems , v ol. 23, no. 3, pp. 975-982, August 2008. [4] M. G. V illalv a, et al., ”Comprehensi v e Approach to Modeling and Simulation of Photo v oltaic Arrays, IEEE T ransactions on Po wer Electronics , v ol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1198-1208, May 2009. [5] S. Rahman and H. A. Rahman, ”Use of Photo v oltaics in Microgrid as Ener gy Source and Control Method using MA TLAB/Simulink, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) , v ol. 6, no. 2, pp. 851-858, April 2016. [6] G. Sekar and T . Anita, ”Design and implementation of solar PV for po wer quality enhancement in Three- phase four -wire distrib ution system, Journal of Electrical Engineering and T echnology (JEET) , pp. 75-82, 2015. http://dx.doi.or g/10.5370/JEET .2015.10.1.075. [7] Z. Miao, et al., ”An SOC based battery management system for microgrids, IEEE T ransactions on Smart Grid , v ol. 5, no. 2, pp. 966-973, 2014. [8] M. Miyagi , et al., ”Uninterruptible smart house equipped with the phase synchronization control system, International Journal of Electrical Po wer and Ener gy Systems, Else vier , v ol. 63, pp. 302-310, 2014. [9] R. Majumder , et al., ”Control and protection of a microgrid connected to utility through back-to-back con v erters, Electric Po wer Systems Research, Else vier , v ol. 81, pp. 1424-1435, 2011. [10] M. Prodano vic, and T . C. Green, ”Control and filter design of three-phase in v erters for high po wer quality grid connection, IEEE T ransactions on Po wer Electronics , v ol. 18, no. 1, pp. 373-2003, January 2003. [11] R. Erickson, and D. Maksmo vic, ”Fundamentals of po wer electronics, Kluwer Academic Publishers , v ol. 2, pp. 5-350, 2000. [12] H. Bellia, et al., ”A detailed modeling of photo v oltaic module u s ing Matlab, NRIA G Journal of Astron- omy and Geoph ysics , v ol. 3, pp. 53-61, May 2014. [13] H. Matayoshi, et al., ”Uninterrupted smart house equipped with a single-phase dq-transformation system, Journal of Rene w able and Sustainable Ener gy , v ol. 8, 025101 (106) doi:10.1063/1.4942781. IJECE V ol. 7, No. 1, February 2017: 86 99 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
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