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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2016.65.7.1193

Droop Control to Compensate Load Voltage Unbalance for Inverter-based Distributed Generations with Unequal Impedance Lines  

Yang, Won-Mo (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Myongji University)
Kim, Hyun-Jun (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Myongji University)
Han, Byung-Moon (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Myongji University)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.65, no.7, 2016 , pp. 1193-1203 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a droop control scheme to compensate the unbalanced line-to-line voltage of unbalanced 3-phase load which is coupled with two inverter-based distributed generations through unequal impedance lines. Unbalanced line-to-line load voltages occur due to using single-phase loads, which brings about bad effects on the coupled inverters and the distributed generations. In order to compensate the unbalanced line-to-line voltages, a positive sequence voltage control was used for sharing the active and reactive power and a negative sequence control was used for reducing the negative sequence voltage. The feasibility of the proposed scheme was first verified by computer simulations, and then experiments with a hardware set-up built in the lab. The experimental results were compared with the simulation results to confirm the feasibility of the proposed scheme.
Keywords
Parallel inverter operation; Droop control; Line impedance; Voltage unbalance compensation;
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