POWER FLOW CONTROL STRATEGY IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR DC TYPE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE AT LOAD BUS
Abstract
This research work presents a feed forward power flow control strategy in the secondary distribution network working in parallel with a DC type distributed energy resource (DER) unit with SPWM-IGBT Voltage Source Converter (VSC). The developed control strategy enables the VSC to be used as power flow controller at the load bus in the presence of utility supply. Due to the investigated control strategy, power flow control from distributed energy resource (DER) to common load bus is such that power flows to the load without facing any power quality problem. The technique has an added advantage of controlling power flow without having a dedicated power flow controller. The SPWM-IGBT VSC is serving the purpose of dc-ac converter as well as power flow controller. Simulations for a test system using proposed power flow control strategy are carried out using SimPower Systems toolbox of MATLAB® and Simulink® . The results show that a reliable, effective and efficient operation of DC type DER unit in coordination with main utility network can be achieved.References
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