Management and Control of Storage Photovoltaic Energy Using Battery-Supercapacitor Combination

 ABSTRACT

Due to the variable characteristics of photovoltaic energy production, batteries used in storage systems renewable power can undergo many irregular cycles of charge I discharge. In turn, this can also have a detrimental effect on the life of the battery and can increase project costs. This paper presents a study of the storage of photovoltaic energy by using a hybrid batteries-Supercapacitors system. Supercapacitors are used to improve batteries life and reduce their stresses. The photovoltaic cells are connected to DC bus (400V) with boost converter and controlled with MPPT algorithm, Supercapacitors and batteries are linked to the DC bus through the buck-boost converter. The inductive load is connected to the DC bus by a DC-AC converter. The static converters associated with batteries and supercapacitors are controlled by current. The components of the systems are supervised through a block of energy management. The complete model of the system is implemented in MATLAB/Simulink environment. Some simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

KEYWORDS

1.      Photovoltaic, batteries

2.      Supercapacitors

3.      DC bus

4.      Energy storage

5.      Energy management

6.      Converters control

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

 CONCLUSION

This paper presents the storage photovoltaic energy by using a combination of Battery-Supercapacitor. Batteries provide energy storage for a relatively long duration, while SCs can absorb rapid changes in current to reduce the stress on batteries. The proposed strategy concerned the regulation of the DC bus voltage for different sources: Photovoltaic, battery and Supercapacitor, despite the variation of solar irradiation. This enabled an efficient energy management and ensures continuity of supply. Simulation results show that the  proposed control and mangement strategies of DC bus are effective and able to supply desired power .

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Integration of PV, Battery and Supercapacitor inIslanded Microgrid

ABSTRACT

Nowadays battery is used to stabilize the DC bus voltage but battery has low power density and high energy density. Whereas the supercapacitor has high power density but low energy density. So, for high energy and power density the integration of battery and supercapacitor is more efficient. It is more challenging to integrate the different sources. So it is required a control strategy to integrate the battery and supercapacitor and provide continuous power to the load. It has also shown that the battery and supercapacitor charged in access mode of power and discharged in deficit mode of power. In this paper proposed a new approach to control the power and dc bus voltage.

KEYWORDS

1.      Battery

2.      MPPT Controller

3.      Photo Voltaic Cell

4.      Supercapacitor

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CONCLUSION

In this paper proposed controller is used for proper sharing of power between different energy sources. Here LPF is used to differentiate between the average power supplied by battery and transient power supplied by supercapacitor. Now, new scheme of converter is able to deal with fluctuation of voltage. The constant power and constant voltage across load were observed.

 REFERENCES

[1] U. Manandhar et al., “Energy management and control for grid connected hybrid energy storage system under different operating modes,” IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1626–1636, 2019.

[2] B. H. Nguyen, R. German, J. P. F. Trovao, and A. Bouscayrol, “Real-time energy management of battery/supercapacitor electric vehicles based on an adaptation of pontryagin’s minimum principle,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 203–212, 2019.

[3] Z. Cabrane, M. Ouassaid, and M. Maaroufi, “Battery and supercapacitor for photovoltaic energy storage: A fuzzy logic management,” IET Renew. Power Gener., vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1157– 1165, 2017.

[4] H. R. Pota, M. J. Hossain, M. A. Mahmud, and R. Gadh, “Control for microgrids with inverter connected renewable energy resources,” IEEE Power Energy Soc. Gen. Meet., vol. 2014-October, no. October, pp. 27–31, 2014.

[5] S. Angalaeswari, O. V. G. Swathika, V. Ananthakrishnan, J. L. F. Daya, and K. Jamuna, “Efficient Power Management of Grid operated MicroGrid Using Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC),” Energy Procedia, vol. 117, pp. 268–274, 2017.

 

Modelling and Simulation of Standalone PV Systems with Battery supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System for a Rural Household

 ABSTRACT

This paper presents the comparison between the standalone photovoltaic (PV) system with battery-supercapacitor hybrid energy storage system (BS-HESS) and the conventional standalone PV system with battery-only storage system for a rural household. Standalone PV system with passive BS-HESS and semi-active BS-HESS are presented in this study. Two control strategies, Rule Based Controller (RBC) and Filtration Based Controller (FBC), are developed for the standalone PV system with semi-active BS-HESS with the aim to reduce the battery stress and to extend the battery lifespan. The simulation results show that the system with semi-active BS-HESS prolongs the battery lifespan by significantly reducing the battery peak current up to 8.607% and improving the average SOC of the battery up to 0.34% as compared to the system with battery-only system.

KEYWORDS

1.      Renewable energy

2.      PV

3.      Hybrid energy storage system

4.      Supercapacitor

5.      Battery

6.      Control strategy

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CONCLUSION

The BS-HESS shows the positive impact to the battery and the overall system. The passive BS-HESS is easy to be implemented, but the improvement is not significant as it cannot be controlled. Therefore, semi-active BS-HESS is a better configuration that improves the battery lifespan and maximizes the level of utilization of the supercapacitor. The system with semi-active BS-HESS (moving average filter) has significantly smoothened the battery current. The system with semi-active BS-HESS (RBC) shows a great capability in battery peak current reduction and the prevention of battery deep discharge by reducing the peak power demand by 8.607% and improving the average SOC of the battery by 0.34% as compared to the system with battery-only system.

REFERENCES

[1] Kan SY, Verwaal M, and Broekhuizen H, The use of battery-capacitor combinations in photovoltaic powered products, J. Power Sources 2006, 162: 971–974.

[2] Chong LW, Wong YW, Rajkumar RK, Rajkumar RK, and Isa D, Hybrid energy storage systems and control strategies for stand-alone renewable energy power systems, Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 2016, 66, pp: 174–189.

[3] Kuperman A and Aharon I, Battery-ultracapacitor hybrids for pulsed current loads: A review, Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 2011, 15: 981– 992.

[4] Dougal RA, Liu S, and White RE, Power and life extension of battery-ultracapacitor hybrids, IEEE Trans. Components Packag. Technol 2002., 25: 120–131.

[5] Kuperman A, Aharon I, Malki S, and Kara A, Design of a semiactive battery-ultracapacitor hybrid energy source, IEEE Trans. Power Electron.2013, 28: 806–815.

Modeling, Implementation and Performance Analysis of a Grid-Connected Photovoltaic/Wind Hybrid Power System

ABSTRACT

This paper investigates dynamic modeling, design and control strategy of a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV)/wind hybrid power system. The hybrid power system consists of PV station and wind farm that are integrated through main AC-bus to enhance the system performance. The Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique is applied to both PV station and wind farm to extract the maximum power from hybrid power system during variation of the environmental conditions. The modeling and simulation of hybrid power system have been implemented using Matlab/Simulink software. The effectiveness of the MPPT technique and control strategy for the hybrid power system is evaluated during different environmental conditions such as the variations of solar irradiance and wind speed. The simulation results prove the effectiveness of the MPPT technique in extraction the maximum power from hybrid power system during variation of the environmental conditions. Moreover, the hybrid power system operates at unity power factor since the injected current to the electrical grid is in phase with the grid voltage. In addition, the control strategy successfully maintains the grid voltage constant irrespective of the variations of environmental conditions and the injected power from the hybrid power system.

KEYWORDS

1.      PV

2.      Wind

3.      Hybrid system

4.      Wind turbine

5.      DFIG

6.      MPPT control

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CONCLUSION

In this paper, a detailed dynamic modeling, design and control strategy of a grid-connected PV/wind hybrid power system has been successfully investigated. The hybrid power system consists of PV station of 1MW rating and a wind farm of 9 MW rating that are integrated through main AC-bus to inject the generated power and enhance the system performance. The incremental conductance MPPT technique is applied for the PV station to extract the maximum power during variation of the solar irradiance. On the other hand, modified MPPT technique based on mechanical power measurement is implemented to capture the maximum power from wind farm during variation of the wind speed. The  effectiveness of the MPPT techniques and control strategy for the hybrid power system is evaluated during different environmental conditions such as the variations of solar irradiance and wind speed. The simulation results have proven the validity of the MPPT techniques in extraction the maximum power from hybrid power system during variation of the environmental conditions. Moreover, the hybrid power system successfully operates at unity power factor since the injected reactive power from hybrid power system is equal to zero. Furthermore, the control strategy successfully maintains the grid voltage constant regardless of the variations of environmental conditions and the injected power from the hybrid power system.

REFERENCES

[1] H. Laabidi and A. Mami, "Grid connected Wind-Photovoltaic hybrid system," in 2015 5th International Youth Conference on Energy (IYCE), pp. 1-8,2015.

[2] A. B. Oskouei, M. R. Banaei, and M. Sabahi, "Hybrid PV/wind system with quinary asymmetric inverter without increasing DC-link number," Ain Shams Engineering Journal, vol. 7, pp. 579-592, 2016.

[3] R. Benadli and A. Sellami, "Sliding mode control of a photovoltaic-wind hybrid system," in 2014 International Conference on Electrical Sciences and Technologies in Maghreb (CISTEM), pp. 1-8, 2014.

[4] A. Parida and D. Chatterjee, "Cogeneration topology for wind energy conversion system using doubly-fed induction generator," IET Power Electronics, vol. 9, pp. 1406-1415, 2016.

[5] B. Singh, S. K. Aggarwal, and T. C. Kandpal, "Performance of wind energy conversion system using a doubly fed induction generator for maximum power point tracking," in Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), 2010 IEEE, 2010, pp. 1-7.

 

Power Quality Assessment of Voltage PositiveFeedback Based Islanding Detection Algorithm

ABSTRACT

Islanding refers to a condition where distributed generators (DGs) inject power solely to the local load after electrical separation from power grid. Several islanding detection methods (IDMs) categorized into remote, active, and passive groups have been reported to detect this undesirable state. In active techniques, a disturbance is injected into the DG’s controller to drift a local yardstick out of the permissible range. Although this disturbance leads to more effective detections even in well-balanced island, it raises the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output current under the normal operation conditions. This paper analyzes the power quality aspect of the modified sliding mode controller as a new active IDM for grid-connected photovoltaic system (GCPVS) with a string inverter. Its performance is compared with the voltage positive feedback (VPF) method, a well-known active IDM. This evaluation is carried out for a 1 kWp GCPVS in MATLAB/Simulink platform by measuring the output current harmonics and THD as well as the efficiency under various penetration and disturbance levels. The output results demonstrate that since the proposed disturbance changes the amplitude of the output current, it does not generate harmonics/subharmonics. Thereby, it has a negligible adverse effect on power quality. It is finally concluded that the performance of the sliding mode-based IDM is reliable from the standpoints of islanding detection and power quality.

KEYWORDS

1.      Islanding detection method (IDM)

2.      Power quality

3.      Sliding mode controller

4.      Total harmonic distortion (THD)

5.      Voltage positive feedback (VPF)

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CONCLUSION

In this paper, the influence of the classic VPF and modified sliding-mode IDM on the GCPVS’s power quality and efficiency has been evaluated. The study has been done for a 1 kWp PV system with string inverter. The simulation results show that, while the THD of output current in the proposed IDM is smaller than the simple VPF, both methods render acceptable power quality in a wide range of system operation. This proper performance has been achieved due to the variation of the current magnitude rather than the angle or frequency. This magnitude variation is realized in VPF and the proposed method in the current and voltage control loops (MPPT), respectively. The simulations also confirm that the acceptable THDI and harmonics are guaranteed in multi-GCPVSs connection situation even at low power generation levels as the worst scenario. Since the new technique tries to deviate the system from its MPP condition, the effect of embedded disturbance on the efficiency is also performed. In this regard, the simulations are carried out and a negligible reduction in MPPT and inverter efficiencies (less than 0.04%) has been demonstrated in the proposed method. This occurs since MPP can be gained at a small bound around ref. It has been finally concluded that the modified sliding mode controller has the advantages of the conventional VPF scheme in islanding detection as well as a higher power quality in the production of energy.

REFERENCES

[1] H. Laabidi and A. Mami, "Grid connected Wind-Photovoltaic hybrid system," in 2015 5th International Youth Conference on Energy (IYCE), pp. 1-8,2015.

[2] A. B. Oskouei, M. R. Banaei, and M. Sabahi, "Hybrid PV/wind system with quinary asymmetric inverter without increasing DC-link number," Ain Shams Engineering Journal, vol. 7, pp. 579-592, 2016.

[3] R. Benadli and A. Sellami, "Sliding mode control of a photovoltaic-wind hybrid system," in 2014 International Conference on Electrical Sciences and Technologies in Maghreb (CISTEM), pp. 1-8, 2014.

[4] A. Parida and D. Chatterjee, "Cogeneration topology for wind energy conversion system using doubly-fed induction generator," IET Power Electronics, vol. 9, pp. 1406-1415, 2016.

[5] B. Singh, S. K. Aggarwal, and T. C. Kandpal, "Performance of wind energy conversion system using a doubly fed induction generator for maximum power point tracking," in Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), 2010 IEEE, 2010, pp. 1-7.

Five-Level Reduced-Switch-Count Boost PFC Rectifier with Multicarrier PWM

 ABSTRACT

A multilevel boost PFC (Power Factor Correction) rectifier is presented in this paper controlled by cascaded controller and multicarrier pulse width modulation technique. The presented topology has less active semiconductor switches compared to similar ones reducing switching losses as well as the number of required gate drives that would shrink manufactured box significantly. A simple controller has been implemented on the studied converter to generate a constant voltage at the output while generating a five-level voltage waveform at the input without connecting the load to the neutral point of the DC bus capacitors. Multicarrier PWM technique has been used to produce switching pulses from control signal. Multi-level voltage waveform harmonics has been analyzed comprehensively which affects the size of input current and required filters directly. Full simulation and experimental results confirm the good dynamic performance of the proposed five-level PFC boost rectifier in delivering power from AC grid to the DC loads while correcting the power factor at the AC side as well as reducing the current harmonics remarkably.

KEYWORDS

1.      Multilevel Converter

2.      Active Rectifier

3.      Multicarrier PWM

4.       Cascaded Control

5.      Power Quality

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CONCLUSION

In this paper a reduced switch count 5-level boost PFC rectifier has been presented. A cascaded PI controller has been designed to regulate the output DC voltage and to ensure the unity power factor mode of the input AC voltage and current. Moreover, low harmonic AC current waveform has been achieved by the implemented controller and employing a small inductive filter at the input line. One of the main issues of switching rectifiers is the high switching frequency that has been reduced in this work using PWM technique through adopting multicarrier modulation scheme. Moreover, DC capacitors middle point has not been connected to the load that had required splitting the load to provide a neutral point. Using a single load with no neutral point makes this topology practical in realistic applications. Comprehensive simulations cases including change in the load, AC voltage fluctuation and generating different DC voltage values have been analysed and performed to ensure the good dynamic performance of the rectifier, adopted controller and switching technique.

REFERENCES

[1] B. Singh, B. N. Singh, A. Chandra, K. Al-Haddad, A. Pandey, and D. P. Kothari, "A review of single-phase improved power quality ACDC converters," Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 50, pp. 962-981, 2003.

[2] B. Singh, B. N. Singh, A. Chandra, K. Al-Haddad, A. Pandey, and D. P. Kothari, "A review of three-phase improved power quality AC-DC converters," Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 51, pp. 641-660, 2004.

[3] H. Abu-Rub, J. Holtz, J. Rodriguez, and G. Baoming, "Mediumvoltage multilevel converters—State of the art, challenges, and requirements in industrial applications," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 57, pp. 2581-2596, 2010.

[4] H. Abu-Rub, M. Malinowski, and K. Al-Haddad, Power electronics for renewable energy systems, transportation and industrial applications: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

[5] L. Yacoubi, K. Al-Haddad, L.-A. Dessaint, and F. Fnaiech, "A DSPbased implementation of a nonlinear model reference adaptive control for a three-phase three-level NPC boost rectifier prototype," Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 20, pp. 1084-1092,

2005.

Modeling and Simulation of a Distribution STATCOM using Sirnulink’s Power System Blockset

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a study on the modeling of a STAT-COM (Static Synchronous Compensator) used for reactive power compensation on a distribution network. The power circuits of the D-STATCOM and the distribution network are modeled by specific blocks from the Power System Blockset while the control system is modeled by Simulink blocks. Static and dynamic performance of a E3 Mvar D-STATCOM on a 25-kV network is evaluated. An “average modeling” approach is proposed to simplify the PWM inverter operation and to accelerate the simulation for control parameters adjusting purpose. Simulation performance obtained with both modeling approaches are presented and compared.

 SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CONCLUSION

A detailed model of a D-STATCOM has been developed foruse in Simulink environment with the Power System Blockset.Models of both power circuit and control system have beenimplemented in the same Simulink diagram allowing smooth simulation. Two modeling approaches (device and average modeling) have been presented and applied to the case of a +3Mvar D-STATCOM connected to a 25-kV distribution network. The obtained simulation results have demonstrated the validity of the developed models. Average modeling allows a faster simulation which is well suited to controller tuning purposes.

REFERENCES

[1] K.K. Sen, “STATCOM: Theory, Modeling, Applications,”in IEEE PES 1999 Winter Meeting Proceedings, pp. 11 77- 1183.

[2] Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), edited by Y.H. Song and A.T. Johns, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, UK, 1999.

[3] K.V. Patil, et al., “Application of STATCOM for Damping Torsional Oscillations in Series Compensated AC Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion, Vol. 13, No. 3,Sept. 1998, pp.237-243.

[4] C.D. Schauder, H. Mehta, “Vector Analysis and Control of Advanced Static VAR Compensators,” IEE Proceedings-[SI Power System BlocksetFor Use with Sirnulink, User’s Guide, The MathWorks Inc., 2000. C, Vol. 140, NO. 4, July 1993, pp. 299-306.