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Newinvertercontrolforbalancingstandalonemicro-gridphase
voltages:AreviewonMGpowerqualityimprovement

Research Abstract
StandaloneMicroGrid(MG)suffersfromhighvoltageunbalancingduetobothsinglephaseandunba- lanced loads.Thispaperpresentsacomprehensivesurveyabouttheavailabletechniquesandcontrollers for MGpowerqualityimprovement.RecenttrendsandschemesforthestandaloneMGpowerquality improvementarereportedindetail.ThetechniqueswhichconcernwiththeMGvoltageunbalancing issue arehighlighted.Inaddition,thispaperdevelopsasimpleschemeforbalancingtheMGphase voltages.Theproposedschemeemploysanewinterfacinginvertertopologyandcontrol.Thethreephase compact unitinterfacinginverteroftheDistributedGenerators(DGs)hasbeenrebuiltinformofthree single phaseinverterunits.EachsinglephaseinverterunitiscontrolledindependentlytoachieveMG phase voltagebalancing.Atdifferentloadoperatingconditions,thethreesinglephaseinverterunitsrun at differentvaluesandtypes(leadingorlagging)powerfactors(PF).Employingtheproposedinverter control achievesperfectphasevoltagesbalancingatthemostMGbuses.Beforeemployingtheproposed invertercontrol,thevoltageunbalancingratioatsomebusesexceedsthan6%.Thisratioapproximately shrinks tozeroafterincludingtheproposedinvertercontrol.Theperformanceoftheproposedinverter control hasbeentestedunderdifferentloadconditions.Inaddition,theperformanceoftheproposed invertercontroliscomparedwithboththeoldinvertercontrol(unitypowerfactorinverter)andthe conventionalinvertercontrol(constantpowerfactorinverter)performance.Only,asimplemodification to theoldinvertercontrolissufficient toimplementthenewinvertercontrol.Theproposedinverter control isverysimpleandhighlyeconomicalattractive
Research Authors
Rashad M.Kamel a,b,n
Research Department
Research Journal
RenewableandSustainableEnergyReviews
Research Pages
pp. 520–532
Research Publisher
NULL
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
Vol. 63
Research Website
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Research Year
2016