TY - GEN
T1 - A practical load sharing control strategy for DC microgrids and DC supplied houses
AU - Huang, Po Hsu
AU - Xiao, Weidong
AU - El Moursi, Mohamed Shawky
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Microgrid (MG) research mainly focuses on AC-based power flow control techniques. Nevertheless, the rise of DC output sources such as photovoltaic (PV) systems, fuel cells, and distributed batteries leads to the immediate need for DC MGs. In this paper, a hierarchical control strategy for a droop-controlled DC MG is proposed, which fits the smart house infrastructure to adopt online renewable generation and load sharing. The improved control strategies combined with the hierarchical approach includes three loops of controllers: the primary control, the secondary control, and the tertiary control. The issues of internal current limiter and anti-windup are also discussed in this study. The simulation results of the proposed approach are presented to verify the feasibility, and the experimental results are carried out to evaluate the droop concept and secondary voltage compensation.
AB - Microgrid (MG) research mainly focuses on AC-based power flow control techniques. Nevertheless, the rise of DC output sources such as photovoltaic (PV) systems, fuel cells, and distributed batteries leads to the immediate need for DC MGs. In this paper, a hierarchical control strategy for a droop-controlled DC MG is proposed, which fits the smart house infrastructure to adopt online renewable generation and load sharing. The improved control strategies combined with the hierarchical approach includes three loops of controllers: the primary control, the secondary control, and the tertiary control. The issues of internal current limiter and anti-windup are also discussed in this study. The simulation results of the proposed approach are presented to verify the feasibility, and the experimental results are carried out to evaluate the droop concept and secondary voltage compensation.
KW - Distributed generation
KW - droop method
KW - microgrid
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893570707&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2013.6700316
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2013.6700316
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893570707
SN - 9781479902248
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 7124
EP - 7128
BT - Proceedings, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
T2 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013
Y2 - 10 November 2013 through 14 November 2013
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