access icon free Voltage quality enhancement in islanded microgrids with multi-voltage quality requirements at different buses

Keeping voltage quality in isolated microgrids while feeding non-linear and/or unbalanced loads is one of the major challenges in the control of these networks. This study proposes a new hierarchical control for enhancing voltage quality in sensitive load bus (SLB) of isolated microgrids considering non-SLBs (NSLBs (DG buses and local buses)) with voltage quality limitations. At the primary level of this hierarchical control, a droop controller is responsible for controlling voltage and frequency of microgrids. The duty of the secondary control level is that in the case of the reduction of voltage quality indices at SLB, it enhances them to their determined levels by sending proper control signals to the primary level to determine each DGs compensation effort. It is worth noting that improving the voltage quality indices at SLB can lead to a drop in NSLBs voltage quality indices. Although NSLBs do not have the strict voltage quality limitation of SLB, but keeping the voltage quality of these buses in their allowed limitation is necessary. The third level of the proposed hierarchical control is designed to guarantee the voltage quality indices limitation at NSLBs. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

Inspec keywords: control system synthesis; power supply quality; compensation; distributed power generation; voltage control; frequency control; power generation control

Other keywords: voltage quality enhancement; islanded microgrid; voltage control; droop controller; multivoltage quality requirement; SLB; frequency control; sensitive load bus; DG

Subjects: Frequency control; Power supply quality and harmonics; Distributed power generation; Power system control; Voltage control; Control of electric power systems; Control system analysis and synthesis methods

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/iet-gtd.2017.1414
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