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POWER-QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF GRID INTERCONNECTED

WIND ENERGY SOURCE AT THE DISTRIBUTION LEVEL
BHARTH KUMAR.D
Dr.R.VIJAYA SANTHI
PG Scholar
Asst.Professor
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh.
ABSTARCT: Utility of power electronic
converters are increasingly connected in
distribution systems using renewable energy
resources. But due to their intermittent nature,
they may pose a threat to network in terms of
stability, voltage regulation and power quality
issues. The present work explains the concept of
grid interconnection of Wind Farm using grid
interfacing inverter along with the facility of
power quality improvement. In this paper it
presents control strategy for achieving
maximum benefits from grid-interfacing
inverter when interconnected in 3-phase 4-wire
distribution system is installed. For controlling
the performance as a multi-function device
which is active power filter functionality
inverters are used, using hysteresis current
control technique. With such a control, the
combination of grid-interfacing inverter and the
3-phase 4-wirelinear/non-linear unbalanced load
at point of common coupling appears as
balanced linear load to the grid. This new
control concept is demonstrated with extensive
MATLAB/Simulink simulation study.

energy solution. Since the past decade,

there has been an enormous interest in
many countries on renewable energy for
power
generation.
The
market
liberalization and governments incentives
have further accelerated the renewable
energy sector growth.
A renewable resource is a natural
resource which can replenish with the
passage of time, either through biological
reproduction or other naturally recurring
processes. Renewable resources are a part
of Earth's natural environment and the
largest components of its ecosphere.
Renewable resources may be the source
of power for renewable energy.
Renewable energy is generally
defined as energy that comes from
resources which are naturally replenished
on a human timescale such as sunlight,
wind, rain, tides, waves and heat.
Renewable energy replaces conventional
fuels such as coal, nuclear, natural gas etc.
in three distinct areas. The extensive use of
power electronics based equipment and
non-linear loads at PCC generate harmonic
currents, which may deteriorate the quality
of power [1], [2]. In [3] an inverter
operates as active inductor at a certain
frequency to absorb the harmonic current.
A similar approach in which a shunt active
filter acts as active conductance to damp
out the harmonics in distribution network
is proposed in [4]. A [5] control strategy

Index TermsActive power filter (APF),

distributed generation (DG), distribution
system, grid interconnection, power quality
(PQ), renewable energy.

I INTRODUCTION
Electric utilities and end users of
electric power are becoming increasingly
concerned about meeting the growing
energy demand. Seventy five percent of
total global energy demand is supplied by
the burning of fossil fuels. But increasing
air pollution, global warming concerns,
diminishing fossil fuels and their
increasing cost have made it necessary to
look towards renewable sources as a future

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for renewable interfacing inverter based on

p-q theory is proposed.

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(small hydro, modern biomass, wind,

solar, geothermal, and bio-fuels) account
for another 3% and are growing
rapidly. At the national level, at least 30
nations around the world already have
renewable energy contributing more than
20% of energy supply. National renewable
energy markets are projected to continue
to grow strongly in the coming decade and
beyond. Wind power, for example, is
growing at the rate of 30% annually, with
a worldwide installed capacity of 282,482
megawatts (MW) at the end of 2012.

Power generation: Renewable energy

provides 19% of electricity generation
worldwide. Renewable power generators
are spread across many countries, and
wind power alone already provides a
significant share of electricity in some
areas: for example, 14% in the U.S. state
of Iowa, 40% in the northern German state
of Schleswig-Holstein, and 49% in
Denmark. Some countries get most of their
power from renewable, including Iceland
(100%), Norway (98%), Brazil (86%),
Austria (62%) and Sweden (54%).

Renewable
energy
resources
mainly can be used for power generation,
heating and transportation purposes. In
case of power generation, the generation
can take place either as a separate unit to
feed a particular area or the renewable
energy resources can be interconnected to
the grid at the transmission level, subtransmission level and distribution level to
enhance load supplying capability of the
grid. Large wind farms, concentrated solar
power photovoltaic system, bio-power,
hydro power, geothermal power are
interconnected at the transmission and subtransmission levels. Photovoltaic system,
small wind farm, hydro power and fuel
cells are interconnected at the distribution
level. The resources are connected to grid
using grid interfacing inverter by suitable
controlling of the inverter switches. But
their highly intermittent nature may result
in instability and power quality problems;
hence an appropriate control circuitry is
required.

Heating: Solar hot water makes an

important
contribution
to renewable
heat in many countries, most notably in
China, which now has 70% of the global
total (180 GWth). Most of these systems
are installed on multi-family apartment
buildings and meet a portion of the hot
water needs of an estimated 5060 million
households in China. Worldwide, total
installed solar water heating systems meet
a portion of the water heating needs of
over 70 million households. The use of
biomass for heating continues to grow as
well. In Sweden, national use of biomass
energy has surpassed that of oil.
Transport
fuels:
Renewable biofuels have contributed to a significant
decline in oil consumption in the United
States since 2006. The 93 billion liters of
bio-fuels produced worldwide in 2009
displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68
billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5%
of world gasoline production.

II SYSTEM DESCRIPTION:
The proposed system consists of RES
connected to the dc-link of a gridinterfacing inverter as shown in Fig. 1. The
voltage source inverter is a key element of
a DG system as it interfaces the renewable
energy source to the grid and delivers the

About 16% of global final energy

consumption
presently
comes
from renewable resources, with 10% of all
energy from traditional biomass, mainly
used
for heating,
and
3.4%
from hydroelectricity. New renewable

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generated power. The RES may be a DC

source or an AC source with rectifier
coupled to dc-link. Usually, the fuel cell
and photovoltaic energy sources generate
power at variable low dc voltage, while the
variable speed wind turbines generate
power at variable ac voltage. Thus, the
power generated from these renewable
sources needs power conditioning (i.e.,
dc/dc or ac/dc) before connecting on dclink [6]-[8]. The dc-capacitor decouples
the RES from grid and also allows
independent control of converters on either
side of dc-link.

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grid via the dc-link. The current injected

by renewable into dc-link at voltage level
can be given as

Fig. 2. DC-Link equivalent diagram.

1=
Where
RES.

. (1)
is the power generated from

The current flow on the other side of dclink can be represented as,

. (2)

Where
,
and
are total power
available at grid-interfacing inverter side,
active power supplied to the grid and
inverter losses, respectively. If inverter
losses are negligible then
=
B. Control of Grid Interfacing Inverter:
Fig.1. Schematic of proposed renewable
based distributed generation system
A. DC-Link Voltage and Power Control
Operation:
Due to the intermittent nature of RES,
the generated power is of variable nature.
The dc-link plays an important role in
transferring this variable power from
renewable energy source to the grid. RES
are represented as current sources
connected to the dc-link of a gridinterfacing inverter. Fig. 2 shows the
systematic representation of power transfer
from the renewable energy resources to the

Fig.3. Block diagram representation of

grid-interfacing inverter control.

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The control diagram of grid- interfacing

inverter for a 3-phase 4-wire system is
shown in Fig. 3. The fourth leg of inverter
is used to compensate the neutral current
of load. The main aim of proposed
approach is to regulate the power at PCC
during: 1)
= 0; 2) PRES< total load
power (PL); and 3) PRES > PL. While
performing the power management
operation, the inverter is actively
controlled in such a way that it always
draws/ supplies fundamental active power
from/ to the grid. If the load connected to
the PCC is non-linear or unbalanced or the
combination of both, the given control
approach also compensates the harmonics,
unbalance, and neutral current. The duty
ratio of inverter switches are varied in a
power cycle such that the combination of
load and inverter injected power appears
as balanced resistive load to the grid. The
regulation of dc-link voltage carries the
information regarding the exchange of
active power in between renewable source
and grid. Thus the output of dc-link
voltage regulator results in an active
current Im. The multiplication of active
current component (Im) with unity grid
voltage vector templates (Ua, Ub and Uc)
generates the reference grid currents (Ia*,
Ib* and Ic*). The reference grid neutral
current (In*) is set to zero, being the
instantaneous sum of balanced grid
currents. The grid synchronizing angle ()
obtained from phase locked loop (PLL) is
used to generate unity vector template.

( )

. (4)

= sin +

. (5)

( )

( ) ..

(6)

The output of discrete-PI regulator at nth

sampling instant is expressed as

. (7)
Where
and
are proportional and integral gains of dcvoltage regulator. The instantaneous
values of reference three phase grid
currents are computed as
. (8)
.. (9)
. (10)
The neutral current, present if any, due to
the loads connected to the neutral
conductor should be compensated by forth
leg of grid-interfacing inverter and thus
should not be drawn from the grid. In other
words, the reference current for the grid
neutral current is considered as zero and
can be expressed as

= sin(). (3)
= sin

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and in the generated reference current

signals. The difference of this filtered dclink voltage and reference dc-link voltage
(Vdc*) is given to a discrete- PI regulator to
maintain a constant dc-link voltage under
varying generation and load conditions.
The dc-link voltage error (Vdcerr (n)) at nth
sampling instant is given as:

.. (11)
The reference grid currents (Ia* , Ib* ,Ic*
and In*)are compared with actual grid
currents
(Ia* , Ib* ,Ic* and In*) to compute the
current errors as

The actual dc-link voltage (Vdc) is sensed

and passed through a second-order low
pass filter (LPF) to eliminate the presence
of switching ripples on the dc-link voltage

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(23)

. (13)
.. (24)

.. (14)
Similarly
. (15)

the

charging

currents

, and
on dc
bus due to the each leg of inverter can be
expressed as

These current errors are given to hysteresis

current
controller.
The
hysteresis
controller then generates the switching
pulses (P1 to Pg ) for the gate drives of
grid-interfacing inverter. The average
model of 4-leg inverter can be obtained by
the following state space equations

.. (25)
.. (26)
(27)

... (16)

... (28)

... (17)

The switching pattern of each IGBT inside

inverter can be formulated On the basis of
error between actual and reference current
of inverter, which can be explained as:

.. (18)

If
switch

, then upper
will be OFF

lower switch will be ON

phase
a
leg
of

. (19)

and
in the
inverter.
If

, then upper switch

will be ON

(20)

will be OFF
a leg of inverter.

Where
, and
are
the three-phase ac switching voltages
generated on the output terminal of
inverter. These inverter output voltages
can be modeled in terms of instantaneous
dc bus voltage and switching pulses of the
inverter as

and lower switch

in the phase

Where hb is the width of hysteresis band.

On the same principle, the switching
pulses for the other remaining three legs
can be derived.

.. (21)

(22)

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III SIMULATION RESULTS:

Fig:7 Simulation result of PQ-Grid

Fig:4 Simulation result of Grid Voltages

Fig:8 Simulation result of PQ-Load

Fig:5 Simulation result of Grid Current

Fig:9 Simulation result of Grid Voltages

Fig:6 Simulation result of unbalanced

load currents

Fig:10 Simulation result of dc-link

Voltages

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IV CONCLUSION

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Enjeti, Sharing of nonlinear load in
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Copious literature survey has been

done with fruitful discussions about
controlling of grid interfacing inverter to
improve power quality. From literature
survey it is found that hysteresis current
control technique is well suited to meet the
requirements. The proposed scheme is
validated by connecting the controller to
the 3-phase 4-wire system. This approach
eliminates the need for additional power
conditioning equipment to improve the
quality of power at PCC.

[5] P. Jintakosonwit, H. Fujita, H. Akagi,

and S. Ogasawara, Implementation and
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Simulations have been done to

validate the performance of the proposed
system
in
MATLAB/Simulink
environment. The THD in grid current
with grid interfacing inverter comes out to
be 1.64% for unbalance non-linear load
and 1.67% for unbalanced linear load
which is well within of 5 percent limits
laid down in IEEE std.

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