Grid-interfacing converter systems with enhanced voltage quality for microgrid application : concept and implementation

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Abstract

Grid-interfacing converter systems with enhanced voltage quality are proposed for microgrid application in this paper. By adapting the conventional series-parallel structure, a group of grid-interfacing system topologies are proposed for the purpose of interfacing local generation/microgrid to the grid, or interconnecting microgrids. The functionality of the proposed systems is also reconfigured in order to ease the control design and to improve overall system performance, differing from existing series-parallel structure based systems. Experiments with a concrete laboratory system are given to detail the proposed concepts and to demonstrate the practical implementations. Two three-phase four-leg inverters, together with dc micro-sources and nonlinear loads, are employed to construct a general seriesparallel grid-interfacing system. Through the introduction of multi-level control objectives, it is illustrated that the proposed system could ride through voltage disturbances and continue the power transfer between the local generation and the grid, while a high quality voltage is maintained for the local loads. The system also shows the possibility to achieve auxiliary functions such as voltage unbalance correction and harmonic current compensation. The main design aspects of the controllers are specified, and the entire system is effectively validated on a laboratory setup.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3501-3513
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Volume26
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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