A meshed backward/forward sweep load flow method for islanded meshed microgrids

Faisal Hameed; Mohamed Al Hosani; Mostafa F. Shaaban; Ahmed Saber; Hatem H. Zeineldin; Ke Meng

doi:10.1002/2050-7038.13127

A meshed backward/forward sweep load flow method for islanded meshed microgrids

Faisal Hameed
, Mohamed Al Hosani
, Mostafa F. Shaaban
, Ahmed Saber
, Hatem H. Zeineldin
, Ke Meng

Electrical Engineering

American University of Sharjah
University of Sydney

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Abstract

The conventional backward/forward sweep method, used for solving the load flow, is only applicable to radial systems. A new load flow method is proposed in this report for islanded droop-controlled meshed AC microgrids, where the backward/forward sweep (BFS) method is proposed in conjunction with a loop-breaking approach to determine the power flows for meshed micro-grids. The proposed approach is applied to the 33-bus test system, and the recorded results are validated with simulation results obtained from PSCAD/EMTDC software. These recorded results confirm that the proposed method is accurate, and it can be used as a tool in the analysis and planning of meshed microgrid systems.

Original language	British English
Article number	e13127
Journal	International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems
Volume	31
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.13127
State	Published - Nov 2021

Keywords

backward/forward sweep (BFS)
DG unit
islanded meshed microgrid
power flow

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