Control Strategy for Accurate Reactive Power Sharing in Islanded Microgrids

Xuan Hoa ThiPham; Toi Thanh Le

Control Strategy for Accurate Reactive Power Sharing in Islanded Microgrids

Xuan Hoa ThiPham

Toi Thanh Le

Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1020-1033, Jul. 2019

10.6113/JPE.2019.19.4.1020

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Abstract

This paper presents a control strategy to enhance the accuracy of reactive power sharing between paralleled three-phase inverters in an islanded microgrid. In this study, the mismatch of power sharing when the line impedances have significant differences between inverters connected to a microgrid has been solved, the accuracy of the reactive power sharing in an islanded microgrid is increased, the voltage droop slope is tuned to compensate for the mismatch of voltage drops across the line impedances by using an enhanced droop controller. The proposed method ensures accurate power sharing even if the microgrid has local loads at the output of the inverters. The control model has been simulated by MATLAB/Simulink with two or three inverters connected in parallel. Simulation results demonstrate the accuracy of the implemented control method. Furthermore, in order to validate the theoretical analysis and simulation results, an experimental setup was built in the laboratory. Results obtained from the experimental setup verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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[IEEE Style]

X. H. ThiPham and T. T. Le, "Control Strategy for Accurate Reactive Power Sharing in Islanded Microgrids," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1020-1033, 2019. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2019.19.4.1020.

[ACM Style]

Xuan Hoa ThiPham and Toi Thanh Le. 2019. Control Strategy for Accurate Reactive Power Sharing in Islanded Microgrids. Journal of Power Electronics, 19, 4, (2019), 1020-1033. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2019.19.4.1020.