Fuzzy logic based controller for optimization of voltage unbalance compensation in an autonomous electric microgrid

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Recently, there has been an increasing utilization of distributed generators (DGs) in electric power systems not only to supply the demand power of the grid but also to enhance the power quality. In this paper, a new control scheme is proposed for optimization of voltage unbalance compensation in an autonomous microgrid. Adaptive fuzzy PI controller (AFPIC) is applied to a voltage compensation loop which modifies the droop control based inverter reference voltage. Virtual impedance loop is used to enhance the operation of droop control. Voltage unbalance factor (VUF) is calculated by positive and negative sequence components of the output voltage and compared with the maximum threshold. Second-order generalized integrator (SOGI) is used to extract the voltage positive and negative sequence. In the proposed method, microgrid has the dynamic potential of decreasing the VUF below the standard value in all kinds of load conditions while the conventional methods are designed only for a specific load operating point. Proper voltage regulation is also satisfied by back to back embedded voltage and current controllers. A sample microgrid is analyzed in presence of single phase unbalanced load and Matlab simulation results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

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