Multifunctional Power Quality Enhancement based on Voltage and Current
in Grid-tied Microgrids with Considering Harmonics
Abstract
Although the capability of multifunctional grid-tied inverters (MFGTI)
to compensate the voltage-based power quality is limited, more attention
has been paid to their ability to improve power quality for effective
use of renewable energy sources (RES) and grid resources even in poor
power quality conditions. This paper proposes a MFGTI to compensate all
power quality issues based on voltage, current and harmonic distortions
caused by load and grid as a promising solution in microgrids. In this
scheme, the proposed MFGTI can be connected to the grid in series or
parallel via bidirectional switches to react to the disturbances
occurring across the grid. The necessary compensation of current and
voltage are mathematically extracted according to the grid and load
situation to regulate the voltage. Also, in the proposed method,
compensation strategies, control scheme and transients in the MFGTI are
presented and in addition to compensate the balanced and unbalanced grid
voltage disturbances, grid current is also compensated and harmonic
distortions of PCC voltage and current is also reduced as much as
possible under the allowable value. The simulation results to confirm
the proposed method including the compensation of unbalanced voltage
sag/swell, harmonics and interruption are performed in Simulink/MATLAB
environment.