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Consensus virtual output impedance control based on the novel droop equivalent impedance concept for a multi-bus radial microgrid

Consensus virtual output impedance control based on the novel droop equivalent impedance concept for a multi-bus radial microgrid
Consensus virtual output impedance control based on the novel droop equivalent impedance concept for a multi-bus radial microgrid

Most of the existing reactive power sharing schemes that assume parallel architecture are known to be less effective for multi-bus radial microgrids. This article proposes an improved reactive power sharing scheme that exploits the novel concept of droop equivalent impedance into designing a consensus virtual-output-impedance-based droop control scheme. The control scheme leads to two notable improvements: (a) it proves that only either virtual resistance or virtual reactance is sufficient to restore proportional reactive power sharing; (b) only a global coupling gain needs to be tuned and no proportional-integral controller is required. A systematic guideline that establishes the approximate range of stable coupling gain is developed. This simplifies the tuning process of the coupling gain. The power correction performance, the resulting bus voltage behavior, consensus control stability, and the robustness to time delay have been investigated in conjunction with an islanded microgrid modified from the IEEE 34 Node Test Feeder. It is shown that the consensus control scheme is capable to demonstrate accurate power sharing regardless of the changes in the network topology, network impedances, loading conditions, and communication delay.

Droop control,, adaptive virtual output impedance., radial microgrid,, reactive power sharing,
0885-8969
1078-1087
Wong, Yi Chyn Cassandra
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Cruden, Andrew
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Lim, Chee
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Rotaru, Mihai D
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Xin, Kong
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Wong, Yi Chyn Cassandra
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Lim, Chee
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Rotaru, Mihai D
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Xin, Kong
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Wong, Yi Chyn Cassandra, Cruden, Andrew, Lim, Chee, Rotaru, Mihai D and Xin, Kong (2020) Consensus virtual output impedance control based on the novel droop equivalent impedance concept for a multi-bus radial microgrid. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 35 (2), 1078-1087, [8985387]. (doi:10.1109/TEC.2020.2972002).

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Most of the existing reactive power sharing schemes that assume parallel architecture are known to be less effective for multi-bus radial microgrids. This article proposes an improved reactive power sharing scheme that exploits the novel concept of droop equivalent impedance into designing a consensus virtual-output-impedance-based droop control scheme. The control scheme leads to two notable improvements: (a) it proves that only either virtual resistance or virtual reactance is sufficient to restore proportional reactive power sharing; (b) only a global coupling gain needs to be tuned and no proportional-integral controller is required. A systematic guideline that establishes the approximate range of stable coupling gain is developed. This simplifies the tuning process of the coupling gain. The power correction performance, the resulting bus voltage behavior, consensus control stability, and the robustness to time delay have been investigated in conjunction with an islanded microgrid modified from the IEEE 34 Node Test Feeder. It is shown that the consensus control scheme is capable to demonstrate accurate power sharing regardless of the changes in the network topology, network impedances, loading conditions, and communication delay.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 4 February 2020
Published date: June 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: Manuscript received September 11, 2019; revised December 10, 2019; accepted January 28, 2020. Date of publication February 6, 2020; date of current version May 20, 2020. This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme under Grant FRGS/1/2016/TK07/USMC/02/1 awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. Paper no.-TEC00932-2019 (Corresponding author: Chee Shen Lim.) Yi Chyn Cassandra Wong and Chee Shen Lim are with the University of Southampton Malaysia, Iskandar Puteri 79200, Malaysia (e-mail: y.c.c.wong@soton.ac.uk; c.s.lim@soton.ac.uk). Publisher Copyright: © 1986-2012 IEEE.
Keywords: Droop control,, adaptive virtual output impedance., radial microgrid,, reactive power sharing,

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Local EPrints ID: 438831
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438831
ISSN: 0885-8969
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ORCID for Andrew Cruden: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-2535

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Author: Yi Chyn Cassandra Wong
Author: Andrew Cruden ORCID iD
Author: Chee Lim
Author: Mihai D Rotaru
Author: Kong Xin

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