Characteristics Behavior of Shunt DC Electric Spring for Mitigating DC Microgrid Issues

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-30-2020

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

There is a huge pervasive consideration of integrating renewable energy sources (RES) to DC power system. Most of the modern loads are DC. Photovoltaic (PV) integrated DC microgrids feature remarkable advantages such as providing DC which can be directly utilized in DC grids that eliminates major step of AC-DC conversion. However, intermittency of RES and presence of some non- idealistic like voltage fluctuation, droop effect, faults and harmonics causes instability problems in DC microgrid. This leads to voltage weakening, potential blackout and damage to equipment. To deal with inconsistency and improbability of RES new emerging demand side management (DSM) technology has been developed called Electric Spring (ES). ES can be employed in AC or DC grid for supply-demand management. DC Electric Spring (DC-ES) is a unique method of distributed voltage control over traditional single point control by effectively handling supply. This paper comprises one of the types of DC-ES called the shunt DC-ES for voltage regulation and Fault Ride Through (FRT) support with various mode of operation on DC bus. To demonstrate the performance analysis and to alleviate DC microgrid issues, DC-ES is implemented on 48V DC system. Moreover, the detail comprehensive characteristics behavior of shunt DC-ES is presented and validated using MATLAB software.

Publication Title

Proceedings of 2020 IEEE 1st International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control, STPEC 2020

ISBN

9781728188737

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