Asymmetric Fault Propagation Mechanism On AC Side of Hybrid Microgrid and Suppression Methods
Asymmetric Fault Propagation Mechanism On AC Side of Hybrid Microgrid and Suppression Methods
Asymmetric Fault Propagation Mechanism On AC Side of Hybrid Microgrid and Suppression Methods
Abstract—The analysis of asymmetric fault propagation impact on short-circuit current. These factors lead to AC side
mechanism on AC side and the study of its suppression methods faults in AC-DC interconnected system, and the analysis of
are very important for the safe and stable operation of AC/DC DC side electrical characteristics becomes very complex[2].
hybrid microgrid. In this paper, the influence of asymmetric Traditional fault analysis and protection methods are not
short-circuit fault on DC power and electricity is analyzed. On necessarily applicable to AC/DC interconnected systems
this basis, a compensation control strategy of negative sequence including hybrid microgrid. To solve these problems, scholars
zero-sequence voltage is proposed to suppress the transmission at home and abroad have made some research. In reference
of this type of fault. Then a hybrid micro-grid model using the [9], the inverted DG is equivalent to a model of constant
control strategy of "network-network" interconnected converter
voltage source and constant impedance in series, and the short
is built on the simulation software PSCAD/EMTDC, which
verifies the correctness of the above fault analysis and the
circuit current of DG injection network is approximately
effectiveness of the improved control strategy.1 measured according to the impedance. In reference [10], the
inverted DG is equivalent to a series model of variable voltage
Index Terms-- AC/DC hybrid microgrid; Fault propagation; source and constant impedance, which improves the accuracy
Asymmetric Short Circuit; Non-characteristic harmonics; of short circuit calculation method. Reference [11] considers
Negative Sequence Zero Sequence Compensation the characteristics of inverted DG faults using constant voltage
and constant frequency control strategy, and proposes a
microgrid fault analysis method based on this strategy. With
I. INTRODUCTION
regard to the influence of AC side faults on DC side in AC/DC
AC/DC hybrid microgrid is an important part of smart grid interconnected systems, reference [13] uses RTDS closed-loop
in the future[1]-[2]. It consists of AC microgrid, DC microgrid test system in HVDC project to simulate the transient
and AC/DC interconnected converter. Various distributed characteristics of DC system under AC system. It is believed
generators, energy storage devices and loads are flexibly that AC side faults will cause low voltage, 100Hz, or double
distributed to AC and DC microgrids according to their own frequency disturbance. In reference [18], the characteristics of
output characteristics. According to the connection DC-side power fluctuation caused by AC asymmetric voltage
relationship between AC/DC hybrid microgrid and large grid, in hybrid microgrid are analyzed. It is considered that the
its operation modes can be divided into grid-connected harmonic content of DC-side is related to the type of access
operation mode and island operation mode. The two modes equipment, and that the double-frequency fluctuation of power
can be switched freely, and the degree of transformation of the will cause the power-frequency fluctuation of DC-side
existing grid is small. Due to the clean, efficient and voltage.
controllable characteristics of AC/DC hybrid microgrid, it will
become one of the important development directions of smart However, at present, there are relatively few basic studies
microgrid in the future[5]. on the AC side fault propagation mechanism of hybrid
microgrid. Based on the analysis of asymmetric fault
Compared with conventional AC power grid, hybrid propagation mechanism on AC side, a control strategy of
micro-grid contains a large number of power electronic negative sequence zero sequence voltage compensation is
devices, which have the characteristics of small inertia and proposed to suppress the propagation of such faults. Finally,
fault current limiting. This makes the operation mode of the correctness of the theoretical analysis and the effectiveness
hybrid micro-grid and DG control strategy have a greater of the improved control strategy are verified by simulation
experiments.
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China
(2018YFB0904700)
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the DC side, which will produce the double frequency
Pac =Pdc =Pc + Pdc′ fluctuation voltage.
1 dudc2 (8) The second harmonic fluctuation of DC side voltage is set
Pc = C as follows:
2 dt
According to the principle of power conservation, when udc.2ω = k1Udcm sin(2ωt +α1 ) (12)
the doubling frequency fluctuation of AC side power Pac
occurs, according to formula (6) and formula (8), the doubling Among the formula: Udcm is the DC voltage on the DC side.
frequency fluctuation of DC side power Pdc will be balanced k1 is the amplitude coefficient of double frequency fluctuation
with AC side power Pac, and the DC side voltage can not be voltage. α1 is the initial phase of double frequency fluctuation
kept constant, resulting in fluctuation. voltage.
B. Analysis of DC Side Voltage Disturbance Combining formula (9) and formula (12), the following
The ILC switching function is expanded by Fourier series can be obtained:
and the non-fundamental component is neglected. The Δua sa0 k2U dcm cos(ωt + α1 )
fundamental component of the switching function is obtained: Δu = s u
b b0 dc.2ω = k2U dcm cos(ωt − 2π / 3 + α1 )
2 Δuc sc0 k2U dcm cos(ωt + 2π / 3 + α1 ) (13)
π sin(ωt ) k2U dcm cos(3ωt +α1 )
sa0
s = 2 sin(ωt − 2π / 3) + k2U dcm cos(3ωt − 2π / 3+α1 )
(9)
b0 π k2U dcm cos(3ωt + 2π / 3+α1 )
sc0 Among the formula: Uacm is the AC side voltage amplitude.
2 sin(ωt + 2π / 3) k2 is the third harmonic amplitude coefficient.
π
Similarly, when the negative sequence current on the AC
When asymmetric faults occur on the AC side, positive side is modulated by three or five times the non-fundamental
sequence current iaP, ibP, icP and negative sequence current iaN, component of the switching function, four or six even non-
ibN, icN are generated. characteristic harmonic currents and pulsating voltages will be
generated on the DC side. According to the analysis of
ia ia ia I acm sin(ωt +θ )
P N P P
Formula (13), the fourth and sixth pulsating voltages on the
i = i P + i N = I P sin(ωt − 2π / 3+θ P ) DC side will also generate fifth and seventh order odd
b b b acm
harmonic voltages on the AC side. Therefore, the asymmetric
ic icP icN I acm
P P
sin(ωt +2π / 3 + θ ) (10) negative sequence components on the AC side will generate a
large number of non-characteristic harmonics on both sides of
I acm
N
sin(ωt +θ N ) the AC and DC hybrid microgrid.
N N
+ I acm sin(ωt + 2π / 3+θ ) III. COMPENSATION CONTROL OF NEGATIVE SEQUENCE
I N sin(ωt − 2π / 3 + θ N ) ZERO SEQUENCE VOLTAGE
acm
Among the formula: IacmP and IacmN are positive sequence When asymmetric faults occur in AC side of hybrid
current amplitude and negative sequence current amplitude, microgrid, the voltage of ILC AC side contains positive and
respectively. θP and θN are the initial phase of positive negative sequence components. In the case of DC side bipolar
sequence current and negative sequence current respectively. power supply and AC side grounding fault, the zero sequence
component will propagate to DC side and cause power
The output current idc of the DC side is obtained by the frequency voltage pulsation. In order to compensate the
simultaneous (9) and (10): negative sequence zero sequence voltage on the AC side of the
T T ILC and suppress the fault propagation of the two, it is
sa0 iaP sa0 iaN necessary for the ILC to send out the negative sequence zero
P N
idc = sb0 ib + sb0 ib
sequence current to meet the demand, so that the negative
sequence zero sequence voltage almost falls on the AC side
(11)
sc0 icP sc0 icN line impedance. Fig. 1 shows the equivalent circuit diagrams
of negative sequence and zero sequence of the ILC AC side
P
= k0 I acm cos θ P − k0 I acm
N
cos(2ωt + θ N ) view.
Among the formula: k0 is harmonic amplitude coefficient. eaN RN LN iaN ea0 R0 L0 ia0
k0<1.
ebN RN LN ibN eb0 R0 L0 ib0
Formula (11) shows that under the action of switching
function, the DC current on the DC side includes the DC part ecN RN LN icN ec0 R0 L0 ic0
and the doubled frequency fluctuation part. The second
harmonic current will cause the fluctuation of DC voltage on (a)Negative sequence equivalent circuit (b)Zero Sequence Equivalent Circuit
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Fig.1 Negative Sequence Zero Sequence Equivalent Circuit e0 can be obtained by the simple calculation of formula
(17) and sinusoidalized as a three-phase zero-sequence voltage
Based on the analysis of power disturbance on the DC side compensation modulation signal.
of section Ⅱ, the output power with only negative sequence
components can be expressed as: ea0 sin(ωt + θ 0 )
0 2 0 0
P = 1.5(edN idN + eqN iqN ) eb = 3 e sin(ωt + θ ) (18)
(14) ec0 sin(ωt + θ 0 )
N N N N
Q = 1.5(eq id − ed iq ) In order to compensate the negative sequence zero
Due to the low proportion of rotating elements in the sequence voltage, the modulation signals of positive sequence
microgrid, it can be considered that AC side R=RN=R0, then voltage, negative sequence voltage and zero sequence voltage
the power consumption of connecting reactor is: obtained in the above process are superimposed as the output
voltage modulation signals of ILC. After modulation by PWM
P = 1.5((idN ) 2 + (iqN ) 2 ) R controller, ILC control signal is generated, which can restrain
(15) the effect of fault propagation. The principle of the negative
Q = −1.5((id ) + (iq ) )ω L
N 2 N 2
sequence zero sequence compensation control presented in
Combining formula (14) and formula (15), the following this paper is shown in Fig. 2.
can be obtained: udP uqP
θP
uac i P eP
Current ed dq/abc aP
e =Ri + ω Li
N
d
N
d
N
q udc
Power dref
Outer iqref Inner e P eb
N (16) Ring Loop
q Positive e P
c
0 θN eaN
It can be seen from formula (16) that the negative + idN edN
udN - PI
Formula N dq/abc eb
N
sequence voltage command signals edN and eqN can be N
i eq Negative N PWM
Control
Signal
uqN -
q (16) ec
obtained by algebraic operation using idN and iqN in the form of PI
+
DC as input signals of ILC output negative sequence current. 0 0 ea0
+ i0 e 0 F eb0
Three-phase negative sequence voltage compensation ua
Single phase
- PI ωL
(18) ec0
modulation signal can be obtained by inverse transformation ub voltage
measurement θ
0
Grid
0 0
Among the formula: e and i are the effective values of CB1
f ILC
u0
Line2 Line5
system. Taking the RMS of zero sequence voltage at the AC_ Bus7 DC_
Bus4
0
connection between ILC and AC bus, the reference value i
Load Load
of RMS of zero sequence current can be obtained by PI Fig.3 Hybrid microgrid structure
0
adjustment of the error between RMS u and instruction
signal 0.
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A. Validation of Fault Analysis Theory sequence component can form a loop through the grounding
In the beginning, the hybrid microgrid was in the mode of fault point and the capacitance grounding neutral point on the
joint grid-connected operation. AC_DG1, DC_DG1 start ILC AC side. When the AC side grounding fault occurs, the
charging. AC_DG2 and DC_DG2 are controlled by PQ with DC side appears larger power frequency fluctuation and other
output power of 15 kW and 5 kW respectively. AC_Load odd fluctuation disturbances, which is consistent with the
consumes 10 kW and DC_Load consumes 30 kW. When the analysis conclusion in Section 2.
system is running for 5s, single-phase grounding, two-phase
B. Validation of improved control strategy
and two-phase grounding faults are set at the beginning of
Line 3 respectively, and (+/-400V) bipolar power supply mode In this simulation experiment, ILC adopts "network-
is adopted. Fig. 4 shows the fault response of DC bus under network" ILC control strategy of positive sequence component
bipolar power supply mode. The obvious fault characteristics improved control[8] and ILC control strategy of adding
caused by asymmetric faults on AC side in DC side are the negative sequence zero sequence voltage compensation
appearance of harmonics, and the voltage drop of DC side bus control respectively. The sagging characteristic of "net-net" is
is not obvious. Fig. 5 shows the harmonic content of DC bus 0.4-uac=kg(0.82-udc2). AC_DG1 adopts U-P Droop control
under different AC faults under bipolar power supply mode. strategy, the sagging characteristic is U=0.4-1.9(P-0.02).
AC_DG2 adopts PQ control strategy with output power of 15
810
Single phase grounding
(a)单相接地 kW. Both DC_DG1 and DC_DG2 adopt U-P droop control
800 strategy, the sagging characteristic are U=0.8+3.2(P-0.025)
UDC/V
790
DC side are compared. The results are shown in Figures 6, 7
and 8.
780
Two-phase grounding
(c)两相接地
800
900 无 No
UDC/V
UDC/V
800 790 补
compensation
700 偿
780
600
4.8 4.9 5.0 5.1 5.2
800
t/s 有 Have
UDC/V
Fig.4 DC Bus Voltage Fault Response in Bipolar Power Supply 790 compensation
补
偿
780
1th
直交侧
4.0 compensation
补
脉动/谐波含量
4th 7th
790
Harmonic
5th 6th
2.0 偿
780
0.0
2.0 800
4.0 有 Have
UDC/V
12.0
14.0 Fig.7 Voltage Response of DC Bus under Two-Phase Interphase Fault
16.0
810
Fig.5 Pulse Harmonic Content of Bipolar Power Supply
800
无 No
Because of the different types of asymmetric faults on AC compensation
补
UDC/V
790
偿
side, the fault characteristics on both sides of AC and DC are 780
AC side, the fault current on AC side does not contain zero 800
有 Have
sequence component, but only negative sequence component
UDC/V
790 compensation
补
and positive sequence component. Under this fault type, the 偿
fault response of DC side bus voltage is basically the same as 780
that of unipolar power supply mode. When the fault type is 4.8 4.9 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4
t/s
grounding fault, the maximum fluctuation amplitude of DC
bus voltage in single-phase grounding fault is 20V, and that of Fig.8 DC Bus Voltage Response under Two-Phase Grounding Fault
two-phase grounding fault is close to 100V, which obviously
exceeds the range of DC voltage fluctuation allowed by the As can be seen from the figure above, the fault
standard of IEEE Std.929-2000. This is because the zero propagation effect of zero sequence component and negative
sequence component is suppressed by adopting the control
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