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Taking double stage type three phase photovoltaic grid-connected generation system as the research object, the equivalent model of photovoltaic cells, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technology and the control strategy of three-phase grid connected inverter are analyzed in this paper. On the basis of the theoretical analysis, the double closed-loop vector control of the double stage type three-phase...
This paper proposes a grid code for photovoltaic (PV) integration to mitigate overvoltage and voltage variation problems caused by a large amount of PV generation in distribution circuits. According to the simulation results, PV generation causes overvoltage and voltage variation problems in distribution circuits. To mitigate the overvoltage and voltage variation problems due to the high penetration...
Integrate Solar PV in scalable on to the grid connected and standalone power generation system has increased attention in these days due to its sustainability and more greener generation. This has become a good option to reduce the telecom Radio Base Stations utility power consumption. The techno economic feasibility of Solar PV integration methodologies in to On-Grid telecom based stations, basically...
This paper discusses about the hybrid cascaded nine level inverters for photovoltaic applications. Cascaded multi-level inverter is made up of series connected half bridge inverters and the output voltage of cascaded MLI is the sum of all inverter output voltages. Cascaded MLI produce staircase output voltage waveform having less harmonics, high output voltage, lower acoustic noise, as compared to...
Driven by economic and environmental concerns, countries around the world are demanding renewable energy resources (RES). Among the available renewable resource; wind and solar energy are promising resources. Recent energy regulations in Jordan have allowed the customers to install their own Photovoltaics generation (PVs) to cover their full energy consumption. This paper investigates the impact of...
The current paper explores a solar and wind energy system that is capable of operating in both: on-grid and off-grid regimes. The system contains two on-grid and one off-grid inverter for that purpose. The off-grid operation of the analyzed system is more vulnerable to instabilities. Experiments where made to show how inrush currents of electrical loads cause transient processes in such a renewable...
This paper shows the design of a solar tree PV system for charging mobile devices on open urban areas. The solar unit tree was designed according to the environmental conditions of Medellin. Based on the electric consumption calculations of mobile devices, a 3.5 m height-tree was built. It has four leaves made of acrylic with solar panels on the top (SOW sized 54 × 83.2 cm). It illuminates with cold...
Tow-stage configurations used in photovoltaic (PV) architectures (microinverter, string inverter or multistring inverter), are commonly used because of the advantages in front of mismatch conditions. In case of a partial shading scenario (produced by cloudy days and dust accumulation), two-stage architectures reach higher efficiencies compared with the traditional central inverter. It is because,...
Current source inverter (CSI) is a family of power converters which has been recently investigated for photovoltaic power conversion in grid-tied operation, due to the inherent boost capability and ease of control. This paper assess Photovoltaic three-phase Current Source Inverters by two different CSI topologies and space vector modulation commutation strategies. Different CSI solutions are therefore...
In this paper, the single-stage Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control strategy for the Aalborg photovoltaic inverter is presented. Aalborg inverter has many advantages, such as high efficiency, wide range of input voltage, minimum voltage drop of the filtering inductors, etc. Nevertheless, it is essentially a “half-bridge” inverter with two input sources, where one source works in MPPT mode,...
Transformer-less single-phase grid-tied inverter is attractive due to low cost, high efficiency, and small size. However, leakage current and second-order ripple power have to be well dealt with. Because the leakage current is a potential threat for body safety and the ripple power will decrease overall efficiency and system reliability. Both issues become obstacles for practical applications. This...
This paper presents a power pulsation decoupling strategy for a two-stage single-phase photovoltaic (PV) inverter with film capacitor, which has small capacitance and large voltage ripple. Such large voltage ripple at DC bus is propagated to the PV array and decreases the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) efficiency. To maintain the MPPT efficiency, a new small-signal model which considers the DC...
Advanced control techniques such as Volt-Watt and Volt-VAR Control have been developed for high integration of distributed renewable energy, such as Photovoltaic (PV) resources, on an electric distribution system. However, designing these control parameters which yields the best results in the system is complicated and depends on feeder conditions. This paper proposes a method to properly design the...
In order to ensure the stable operation of the power grid, this paper aims at the modeling of the integrated information system of the photovoltaic power plant, and the model of the PV module is divided into physical characteristics. In order to ensure the stability of the power grid, Model and external characteristic model. The PV module model based on the physical characteristics is based on the...
With the increase of the number of photovoltaic grid connected power plants and the increase of capacity, the impact on the protection and control of the grid can not be ignored. The establishment of electromagnetic transient simulation and equivalent calculation model of photovoltaic power station is the basis for studying its grid connection characteristics and its impact on relay protection. The...
Differential power processing (DPP) module integrated converters are developed to mitigate the effects of the mismatch losses in series connected photovoltaic (PV) strings. This paper focuses on the configurations used in various DPP converter topologies by categorizing them into two main classifications: 1) Maximum power point tracking configurations and 2) voltage balancing configurations. The implementation...
Nowadays, due to the high-scale penetration of photovoltaic systems, reliable and efficient photovoltaic grid-connected systems using the advances of power electronics and advanced control techniques are desirable. In this paper, using the general structure for synchronous dq0 frame, a single-stage three-phase grid-connected photovoltaic inverter with a nonlinear control strategy is developed to generate...
At present, the research on the quality of micro-grid power at home and abroad is still at the initial stage, which focuses on the study of the power quality characteristics of micro-sources. There is little research on the quality control of micro-grid power and the power quality adjustment device for microgrid. In particular, there is no literature on the power quality of the microgrids containing...
This paper focuses on the relevant content of the MVDC-connected photovoltaic system based on the modular cascaded structure. This paper proposes a new topology for the DC grid-connected photovoltaic system with a novel capacitor voltage balancing control strategy, including the module input power ratio feed forward and module capacitor voltage closed-loop control. The proposed control strategy is...
A method for generating reactive power in photovoltaic (PV) inverters is presented. This method is based on the extraction of active and reactive components present in the output current of a PV-Inverter using a scheme consisted of low pass filter. The extraction results, together with the unity sinusoidal signal obtained from the phase lockup loop is used to generate a reference for current controller...
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