Modelling and Control of Grid Connected Microgrid With Hybrid Energy Storage System
Modelling and Control of Grid Connected Microgrid With Hybrid Energy Storage System
Corresponding Author:
Suganthi Neelagiri
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Shavige Malleswara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bengaluru 560078, India
Email: [email protected]
1. INTRODUCTION
The increasing power demand and pollution produced by the conservative energy sources arises the
need for clean energy generation from renewable energy sources [1], [2]. Due to the vast reduction in the
photovoltaic (PV) panel price and installation price along with the improved techniques to boost the PV system
efficiency. PV based power generation is booming [3]. Intermittent and uncontrollable nature of the PV system
along with the need for continuous supply to critical loads poses a requirement for energy storage
devices [4], [5]. Energy storage devices are commonly used to reduce power fluctuation, to provide peak power
shifting, and to supply power during emergency conditions. Depending on the characteristics of the energy
storing devices, these devices are classified into high power and energy density devices. Heigh power density
devices can provide high power for short periods of time, whereas high-energy density devices can provide
energy for long periods of time. Some of the power electronics loads requires high power during the starting
only for short duration of time [6]. Designing the battery for such a high current rating will increase the cost of
the system, and this type of energy requirement creates stress on the battery during the charging process as
well as during discharging cycles. The battery responds slowly to these fast-changing loads causes stability
issues in the microgrid system. Due to these issues, hybrid energy storage system is implemented to decrease
the stress posed on battery and also to improve its life span [7]. In order to overcome difficulties of renewable
energy sources microgrid is introduced. Microgrid helps in the smooth penetration of intermittent renewable
energy sources to the main grid [8]. Operating the microgrid in both grid connected and standalone mode helps
in achieving economic benefits by selling the electrical energy to utility grid during peak hours and by buying
deficit electrical power during the base load period. Renewable energy sources (RES) improve the reliability
of the DC microgrid, still efficiency may not be significant till proper energy management control methods are
applied to share the energy between RES, energy storage devices and loads [9]. Gui et al. [10]
and Pannala et al. [11] presented diverse power handling methods based on dc link voltage regulation for RES
combined DC microgrid.
Un necessary switching of power sources in Microgrid is overcome by regulating the several
generating power bases and loads concurrently, and supercapacitor is also combined to improve battery life
and to offer smooth mode transition. However, the control strategy proposed for energy management on the
battery, due to SOC restrictions, the battery is not being used to its maximum potential and the diesel generator
is being run consistently at its best efficiency to meet the proposed system's energy requirements. It does
contribute to the carbon emission [12]–[15]. In literature battery and super capacitor-based system are reported
validates the utilization super capacitor improves the battery life and better handling of transient power
requirements [16]–[19].
From the present literature energy management schemes are either rule based or optimization-based
energy management system [20]. Rule based Energy management scheme such as fuzzy logic and threshold
method is reported in the literature [21], [22]. In the case of fuzzy based system rules are fixed by experience
and expertise, however achieving global optimization is difficult in fuzzy based energy management systems.
In threshold-based energy management schemes threshold is applied on state of charge of the device that stores
energy to sustain the optimum operation of the grid. However, this method requires complex mathematical
formulation. Ali et al. [23] in case of optimization-based energy management schemes such as model predictive
control, neural network, dynamic programming was reported in the literature. In case of model predictive and
dynamic programming-based energy management schemes it involves heavy mathematical formulation and
calculation burden. Hence, a coordinated control-based energy management system is used in this work for a
microgrid with a hybrid energy storage scheme. Proposed system is designed to handle efficiently under
different operating modes and to provide smooth transition between the modes, attain power factor of the
system unity and quick dc bus voltage stabilization in both the modes, along with fulfilling the transient power
requirements due to sudden generation and load changes.
2. MICROGRID STRUCTURE
The planned DC microgrid scheme consists of PV system with battery and supercapacitor energy
storage. The PV system is coupled to DC bus through boost converter and it is controlled by incremental
conductance maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm. Battery and supercapacitor are connected
parallel to dc link via DC-DC bidirectional converter. The DC bus is coupled to the utility over single-phase
voltage source inverter as shown in Figure 1. Two controllers were designed to control energy storage devices
and voltage source inverter. Controls for the Inverter is designed such that it can act in either grid connected
mode or in standalone mode. Likewise, DC-DC bidirectional controller control is designed to control the
bidirectional control switching depending on the power requirement of load and generated power levels.
A perfect PV array consisting of 8 module strings is applied for the planned microgrid system. The
model, 1Soltech 1STH-250 W is applied. Specifications of the model presented is given in the Table 1.
Incremental conductance (IC) MPPT is algorithm [24], [25] is used maximize the output of the PV array system.
The Algorithm is depicted in Figure 2, In this algorithm voltage and current is sensed and compared with the
previous values. The IC algorithm is constructed based on the power curve slope of the PV array. The slope of
MPP is 0 at MPP. so that P = VI and P/V = 0. Taking in to account that 𝛥𝐼/𝛥𝑉 = −𝐼/𝑉 if 𝑃 = 𝑀𝑃𝑃 and 𝛥𝐼/>
−𝐼/𝑉 𝑖𝑓 𝑃 < 𝑀𝑃𝑃 and 𝛥𝐼/𝛥𝑉 < −𝐼/𝑉 if 𝑃 > 𝑀𝑃𝑃. The instantaneous conductance can be compared with the
rate of change of current with respect to voltage i.e with 𝛥𝐼/𝛥𝑉.The reference is increased or decreased until
𝛥𝐼/𝛥𝑉 = −𝐼/𝑉 is reached. The operation of the PV array is maintained once the maximum power is attained.
Lithium-ion battery and supercapacitor combination is used as hybrid power reserve. The main
objective of the proposed energy storage scheme is to utilize high energy density of battery for average power
requirement and to use super capacitor which is high in power density for transient/sudden power requirements
due to sudden load or generation changes. Both the models implemented for this planned system is available
in MATLAB/Simulink library. The specifications of the battery and super capacitor is given in the Table 1.
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3. ENERGY MANAGEMENT
The proposed energy management control strategy consists of three controllers. One is DC link
voltage controller, MPPT controller for PV boost converter, Inverter controller. MPPT controller is explained
in previous section. The operation of DC link voltage controller and inverter controller is explained below.
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current components are synchronized with grid voltage phase angle using PLL. The converted current
components Id and Iq are reference currents corresponding to active and reactive power necessities compared
with actual currents and error signal is given to the two proportional–integral (PI) controllers to generate
voltage signals which are then inverse park transformed and provided to pulse with modulation generator to
produce switching pulses for inverter. Reference current for d-axis, i.e Idref is designed in order to control DC
link voltage. Reactive current component Iqref is maintained zero to feed only active power and achieve unity
power factor.
0.1∗𝑉𝑎𝑐 2
𝐿2 = (3)
𝑆∗2𝜋𝑓
0.2∗𝑆
ΔL = (4)
𝑉𝑎𝑐
0.05∗𝑆
𝐶= (5)
𝑉𝑎𝑐 2 ∗2𝜋𝑓
1 𝐿1+𝐿2
𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠 = ∗ (6)
2𝜋 √𝐿1𝐿2𝐶
𝑓𝑔 = 10 ∗ 𝑓 (7)
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Figure 8, it is observed that from 0 to 1 sec PV power generation is more than that of 2000 W and it is also more
than the AC load requirement 0f 1000 W and DC load requirement of 450 W. PV system supplies both the loads
and the extra power is used for charging the battery and supercapacitor. Similarly, from 1 to 3 sec as PV power is
more than the 800 W. PV and battery contributes to the both loads from 2 to 3sec as from Figure 8. It is also
observed that from 0 to 3 sec the Grid current is zero and the load power is supplied from the PV from 1 to 2 sec,
and from 2 to 3 sec PV and battery together supplied. But from 3 to 4 sec PV power generation is reduced to
300 W from 1000 w, which less than 800 W, hence now microgrid supplied from utility grid as observed from
the increase in grid current and power as described in Figure 8. In the Figure 9, It is also observed that regardless
of variations in generation and load requirements, DC bus voltage is maintained at 400 V.
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Figure 10. Grid voltage, grid current, grid power and DC link voltage during transition
5. CONCLUSION
An energy management system is designed for the microgrid with PV as main energy source along
with battery and super capacitor hybrid energy storage systems. PI Controller based coordinated control-based
energy management system is modelled for both grids connected as well as standalone mode. DC side of the
grid is controlled by dual loop controller which controls battery and supercapacitor bi-directional converters.
Inverter control for utility connected mode and islanded mode is designed using dq reference frame technique.
Based on the mode of operation switching pulses were generated for inverter and DC-DC converters. Operation
of the proposed system is verified at grid connected mode, standalone mode, and changeover of mode from
utility connected mode to standalone. From the results obtained the proposed energy management system
efficiently sustains the DC link voltage constant, and it maintains unity power factor in ac side of the grid. And,
it is observed that grid stability is maintained in all the operating modes of the microgrid by fulfilling AC and
DC load requirements and the LCL filter designed such that harmonics in the inverter current is limited to
2.26% which plays important role in grid.
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