Adaptive Power Management Strategy for effective VA Utilization in a Standalone Microgrid

Preetha Sreekumar; Vinod Khadkikar

doi:10.1109/PEDES.2016.7914267

Adaptive Power Management Strategy for effective VA Utilization in a Standalone Microgrid

Preetha Sreekumar, Vinod Khadkikar

Electrical Engineering

Higher Colleges of Technology

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Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive power management strategy for Distributed Generation (DG) inverters in a standalone microgrid. The existing droop control technique ensures load sharing among the DG inverters. However, the intermittency in power generation of renewable energy based DG pose many challenges to the standalone operation of a microgrid. Of which, the ineffective VA utilization is addressed in this paper. With the proposed technique, as the generation goes down, the active power supplied by the DG is curtailed and the DG inverter is controlled to support the reactive power demand of the load, thereby utilizing the rating of the inverter switches effectively. The applicability of the proposed adaptive control method is analyzed using real time hardware-in-loop studies.

Original language	British English
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2016.7914267
State	Published - 27 Apr 2017
Event	2016 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, PEDES 2016 - Trivandrum, Kerala, India Duration: 14 Dec 2016 → 17 Dec 2016

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Conference	2016 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, PEDES 2016
Country/Territory	India
City	Trivandrum, Kerala
Period	14/12/16 → 17/12/16

Keywords

Adaptive control
Droop control
Intermittent power generation
Islanding
Microgrid

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