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1. Introduction
Microgrids are small power grids comprising multiple distributed generations (DGs),
loads, power electronics converters, energy storage systems and telecommunications that
not only can operate in grid-connected mode but also in islanded mode [1]. The flexible
control of multiple DGs strengthen its reliability and power quality, in the meantime
eliminate the impact of unstable power supply to our grids [2].
The main goals to ensure stable and efficient operation are frequency and voltage
regulation, power control, synchronization, energy management, and economic
optimization [3-6]. When in islanded mode, droop control is adopted. Based on the
relationship between active power and frequency, reactive power and voltage, inverters
can control the output to realize proper power sharing [7-9].
But in fact droop control strategy is usually unstable due to the power coupling,
consequently its sharing is inaccurate. Some scholars propose to add a virtual impedance
into the control loop so that the output impedance of DGs could be inductive [10-12].
Proper design of the control is inevitable. Small signal model considering virtual
impedance is analyzed in [12], but the influence of changing loads has not been taken into
consideration. To the impact of line impedance, an accurate power sharing method is
proposed in [13].
In the other hand, droop control is based on the frequency and voltage deviation to
realize the power sharing strategy. But this kind of deviation could have an impact on the
stability of microgrids. So [1] and [4] discussed an autonomous restoration control to
restore the frequency and voltage. So the control stability and dynamic performance is to
be analyzed.
By analyzing the conventional droop control scheme used in islanded microgrids, this
paper proposed an enhanced droop control strategy with accurate power sharing control
Line Impedance
Vpp
Z1=R1+jX1
V11
PCC
LC filter
Load
Line Impedance
Z2=R2+jX2
V22
Vx
Rx2
X x2
Vx
Rx2 X x2
[ Rx Vx V p cos xp X xV p sin xp ]
(1)
(2)
where x=1, 2 represents two DG branches, xp is the phase angle difference between
output voltage Vx and PCC voltage Vp. If the line inductor is much bigger than the resistor,
the above power flow equation can be simplified like this
Px
Qx
VxV p
Xx
sin xp
Vx (Vx V p cos xp )
Xx
(3)
(4)
From (3) and (4), the relationship of P-f and Q-V can be derived. As a result, (5) and
(6) are obtained to regulate the output voltage and frequency as follows
f n f * m( P Pn )
(5)
Vn V n(Q Qn )
(6)
where m is the frequency droop coefficient; n is the voltage droop coefficient; f* is the
nominal frequency; V* is the nominal phase voltage amplitude.
At present, the triple-loop feedback control structure is the main scheme used in droop
controller. Power control loop is mentioned above. After that voltage and frequency
reference signal will be calculated; voltage and current double-loop control is adopted
here. Inner current loop is aimed at promoting the controller performance, while outer
loop is mainly used to generate reference signal for inner loop to regulate voltage [14-15].
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Figure 2 shows the above control structure, in which Cf and Lf represent filter capacitor
and inductor, is the reference angular frequency, and Vod* and Voq* are d-q components
of reference voltage respectively. PI control in voltage loop can stabilize output voltage,
and proportion control in current loop will improve the response speed.
Control block
md
Vod* PI
Iod
Kpwm
1/Lf
1/s
1/Cf
1/s
Lf
Cf
Lf
PI
KI
Kpwm
mq
1/Lf
1/s
1/Cf
Vod
Cf
Voq*
KI
Voq
1/s
Ioq
Ioabc
Vdc
ICabc
abc
abc
SPWM
Inner
Current
Control
abc dq
abc
dq
dq
ICdq -
Outer
Voltage
Control
Vodq
-
dq
Iodq
-
Virtual
Impedance
Power
Calculation
Q
Power Sharing
dq
Voltage
Compensation
abc
+
f*
kps+kif/s
f
Frequency Restoration
Reference
Signal
U*sin*
Q-V Droop
P-f Droop
+
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Vodq
*
Vodq
L f s2
As3 Bs 2 Cs D
I odq
(7)
(8)
where G(s) is the voltage closed-loop transfer function, Zo(s) is the equivalent output
impedance of inverters.
As seen in (8), it represents the equivalent Thevenin circuit of the closed-loop system.
G(s)Vodq* is the equivalent voltage source, and Zo(s) is the equivalent source impedance.
As a result, the virtual impedance control loop can be added to change the output
impedance.
The virtual impedance is designed to have an inductive behavior for the low-frequency
components and a resistive behavior for the high-frequency components. Benefit from
this design, the total harmonic distortion is in desirable range and the power sharing is
ensured. To realize this kind of demand, the following equation is designed
(9)
(10)
where Iofd, Iofq, Iohd, Iohq represent the fundamental and high-order harmonic component
of the output current respectively.
Clarke and Park transformation is applied to the output current to get its d-q
component. Then as shown in (11), low-pass filter (LPF) is used for fundamental
component extraction. After a simple calculation in (12), the high-order harmonic
component is also extracted.
I of ,dq
I om,dq
(11)
(12)
s c
where c is the cut-off frequency of LPF, Iom,dq represents the measured output current.
Figure 4 shows the control scheme of virtual impedance, which is proposed to avoid
the differentiation by transforming sLvz as jLvz, where is the system angular frequency.
Voltage drop calculation of virtual impedance is realized in d-q frame.
Ioh,dq
Iom,dq
Vvzd
c
s c
Rvz
Rvz
-Lvz
Vvzq
Iof,dq
Lvz
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PR QX
V
(13)
where V is the voltage amplitude difference between two ends of the transmission line.
Based on (13), voltage compensation loop is derived. Measured output active and
reactive power are used in feedback regulation to promote the power sharing
performance. Hence new Q-V droop control is as follows
(14)
Vn V * Vcomp n(Q Qn )
where Vcomp is the voltage compensation loop
Vcomp
PRL Q X L X vz
(15)
Vo
Xvz is virtual reactance; Vo is output voltage of inverters; P is the output active power;
Q is the output reactive power. The block diagram of voltage compensation is shown in
Figure 5.
P
RL
+
XL+Xvz
Q
Vcomp
Vo
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In the proposed method, measured frequency is compared with nominal value to get an
error signal, which will pass through the PI controller to generate restoring signal fres as
*
*
f res k fp f sys
f DG k fi f sys
f DG dt
(16)
kfp and kfi are the PI parameters; fsys* is the nominal frequency; fDG is the measured
frequency. Thus final restoring signal fres is generated to compensate the deviation.
As shown in Figure 6, the power capacity and P-f droop coefficient of two DGs are
different. Under this circumstance the restoration is still effective to properly control the
frequency.
f
DG1
DG2
Frequency
Droop Control
fsys*
Frequency
Restoration
P
P1
P2
P1max
P2max
(17)
VDGV p
XL
cos xp
(18)
VDG is the output voltage of inverters; VP is the voltage in PCC; XL is the impedance of
transmission line; xp represents the power angle.
Normally pDG would pass through a low-pass filter with cut-off frequency c to get
the power signal used in droop calculation. So its small signal is as
PDG
s c
pDG
(19)
(20)
Gdroop m
(21)
Refer to the frequency restoration control equation (16), its small signal is
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res Gres DG
where Gres is the restoration transfer function as follows
Gres k fp
(22)
k fi
(23)
Moreover, with restoration control the equation of DG should be changed from (19)
to
DG G droop PDG res
(24)
Considering that xp = (1/s) DG, (17), (19), (20), (22) and (24) can be manipulated
to get
DG G droop
c
1
G p DG Gres DG
s c
s
(25)
c
1
s c s
(26)
200
100
1
kfp increase
Imag axis
Imag axis
100
-100
kfi increase
-100
-200
-200
-20
-16
-12
-8
-4
Real axis
-30
-25
-20
-15
-10
-5
Real axis
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4. Simulation Result
Islanded microgrid model with two parallel DG inverters has been established in
Matlab/Simulink, adopting control scheme proposed in this paper to verify its
performance.
Table 1. DG System Parameters
Parameter
Value
16kW, 24kW
4.0kVar, 4.0kVar
1.3mH/0.01
1200F
0.15/2mH
0.33/4mH
220V(RMS L-L)/50Hz
0.0003142rad/W
0.000547V/Var
5.328
216
0.01
5
20Hz
Pn
Qn
Lf /Rf
Cf
Rline/Lline
Rvz/Lvz
Nomial V/f
m
n
kup
kui
kfp
kfi
c
DG and inverter
parameters
Control block
parameters
Simulation results of power sharing is shown in Figure 8. Before t=6.0s, load power is
PL1=40kW, QL1=8kVar. The microgrid is originally operated with conventional droop
control. As seen, active power are both the nominal value 16kW and 24kW, while
reactive power sharing is inaccurate. Reactive power of DG1 is 1kVar more than that of
DG2. At t=3.0s, virtual impedance and voltage compensation is activated. As expected, Q1
and Q2 both reach.
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P / kW
28
P2
24
20
P1
16
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
t/s
7.0
6.0
Q / kVar
Q1
5.0
4.0
Q2
3.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
t/s
70
20
Vcomp / V
16
12
0
0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
t/s
20
Vcomp / V
16
12
0
0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
t/s
50.2
Freq / Hz
f1&f2
50
49.8
49.6
0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
t/s
71
28
P2
P / kW
24
20
P1
16
12
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
t/s
7000
Q / kVar
6000
Q1&Q2
5000
4000
3000
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
t/s
400
U/V
200
-200
-400
0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
t/s
40
I/A
20
-20
200
20
-40
-20
-200
0
0.5
1.5
Time (s)
1.0
2.5
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
-40
t/s
7.0
9.0
1.5
Time (s)
10.0
2.5
0.03
Mag (% of Fundamental)
Mag (% of Fundamental)
0.035
0.025
0.02
0.015
0.01
0.005
0
8.0
0.5
0.14
0.12
0.1
0.08
0.06
0.04
0.02
100
200
300
Frequency (Hz)
400
500
100
200
300
Frequency (Hz)
400
500
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waveform of DG2 has the same performance. FFT analysis is applied to get Total
Harmonic Distortion (THD) of PCC voltage and DG1 output current from 3.0s to 4.0s.
Both THD are maintained in relatively low range shown in Fig 11(c), (d).
5. Conclusion
This paper has introduced an enhanced droop control scheme with accurate power
sharing and frequency restoration strategy. In this method, a well-designed virtual
impedance and voltage compensation loop are added to the conventional droop control
scheme, thus improving the power sharing performance even two DGs have different
power capacity. Through the resistive behavior for the high-frequency components in
virtual impedance loop, THD of both voltage and current keep in low range. Furthermore,
frequency deviation caused by Q-V droop is solved by introducing a PI control loop as
autonomous restoration control. The small signal model of frequency control is built to
analyze the system stability, choosing desirable PI parameters. Smooth frequency
restoration is ensured under circumstance of frequent load change. Simulation results
demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project
No. 51277191) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project
No. CDJXS12151106).
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Authors
Lianqing Zheng, he received his B.S. and M.S. degree in
automation from Chongqing University, China, in 1987 and
1990, respectively, and his Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical
Engineering from Chongqing University, China, in 2005. He has
been a professor in Department of Electrical Engineering,
Chongqing University, China. His research interests include
power electronics, microgrid control operation, and power
conversion for renewable energy.
Chen Zhuang, he received his B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering in 2012 from Chongqing University, China, where he is
currently working toward the M.S. degree. His research interests
include DC-AC power converter, microgrid control operation, and
power conversion for renewable energy.
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