• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.704-712
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• 2016

최근, 전 세계적으로 신재생에너지에 대한 관심이 증가됨에 따라 친환경적이고 무한한 태양에너지를 이용하는 태양광전원의 설치가 급증하고 있다. 이러한 태양광전원은 주변 환경에 따라 출력이 크게 좌우되는데, 예를 들어 구름 또는 건물의 음영으로 인한 일부 모듈의 문제로 인해서 해당 스트링이 출력을 발생하지 못할 수 있다. 즉 기존의 제어방식에서는 모듈이 직렬로 연결된 스트링이 인버터에 연계되어 있으므로, 일부 모듈에 음영이 발생할 경우 스트링의 전압이 인버터의 동작전압 미만으로 되어 해당 스트링이 인버터에서 탈락되는 문제점이 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 각각의 스트링마다 전압을 제어하는 DC-DC 전압 레귤레이터를 이용하여, 스트링이 인버터에서 탈락되는 문제점을 개선하는 새로운 태양광전원 제어방식을 제안하였다. 또한, 회로해석 상용 프로그램인 PSIM S/W를 이용하여, 정전압 제어 및 MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) 제어기능을 가지는 DC-DC 전압 레귤레이터와 위상동기루프(PLL, Phase-Locked Loop) 제어 기반의 3상 인버터의 모델링을 수행하였다. 이 모델링을 바탕으로 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과, 부분적으로 음영이 발생하는 모듈을 가진 스트링이 인버터에서 탈락하는 현상을 개선함으로써 태양광전원의 운용효율이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.616-622
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• 2015

A microgrid which is composed of distributed generation systems, energy storage systems and loads is operated in the grid-connected mode and in the islanded mode. Especially, in the islanded mode, a microgrid should maintain frequency in the allowed range. The frequency is decided by a balance between power supply and power demand. In general, the frequency is controlled by using battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in the microgrid. Especially, droop control is applied to controlling BESSs in the microgrid. Meanwhile, over-charging and deep-discharging of BESS in operation and control cause life-shortening of batteries. In this paper, a fuzzy droop control is proposed to change droop gains adaptively by considering state of charge (SOC) of BESSs to improve the life cycle of the battery. The proposed fuzzy droop control adjusts droop gains based on SOC of BESSs in real time. In other to show the performance of the proposed fuzzy droop control, simulation based on Matlab/Simulink is performed. In addition, comparison of the convention droop control and the proposed fuzzy droop control is also performed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.254-264
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• 2019

This paper proposes an indirect current control technique based on a proportional resonant (PR) approach for the seamless mode transfer of utility interactive inverters. Direct-current and voltage hybrid control methods have been used for inverter control under grid-connected and islanded modes. A large bandwidth can be selected due to the structure of single-loop control. However, this results in poor dynamic transients due to sudden changes of the controller during mode changes. Therefore, inverter control based on indirect current is proposed to improve the dynamic transients by consistently controlling the output voltage under all of the operation modes. A PR-based indirect current control topology is used in this study to maintain the load voltage quality under all of the modes. The design processes of the PR-based triple loop are analyzed in detail while considering the system stability and dynamic transients. The mode transfer techniques are described in detail for both sudden unintentional islanding and islanded mode voltage quality improvements. In addition, they are described using the proposed indirect control structure. The proposed method is verified by the PSiM simulations and laboratory-scale VDER-HILS experiments.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권4호
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• pp.566-572
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• 2013

A microgrid is a small scale power system. The microgrid is operated in two operation modes, the grid-connected mode and the islanded mode. In the islanded mode, the frequency of a microgrid should be maintained constantly. For this, the balance between power supply and power demand during islanded mode should be met. In general, energy storage systems (ESSs) are used to solve power imbalance. In this paper, the frequency control effect of a Lithium-ion battery energy storage system (Li-ion BESS) has been tested on the hardware-in-the loop simulation (HILS) system environment.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.257-258
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• 2011

This paper describes a new method for the seamless operation mode transfer of a PCS with minimized voltage disturbance. The proposed method provides reduced STS turn off time after line fault and smooth mode change between current and voltage control of the PCS. The usefulness of the method is verified through simulations with the consideration of the time delay in detecting a line fault and SCR turn-off time.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2006

This paper present the performance evaluation of PV systems installed at Tibet area of China in order to identity the key factors that determines system operation at a severe climate conditions and promote the cooperation of PV technology between Korea and China. The installed systems consist of 100kW on-grid connected PV systems, BOS(balance of systems), data acquisition and transmission equipments. The Korea side supplied the solar cell, BOS like as inverter, control box and monitoring system. And the Chinese side assembled solar module, constructed site and built control house. It has been shown that the average radiation per monthly from Tibet is 1.5 times larger than that from Mokpo. Also, radiation time from Tibet is 2hour higher than that from Korea.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2008

This paper presents an investigation of a voltage and frequency controller for an isolated asynchronous generator (IAG) driven. by a wind turbine and supplying 3-phase 4-wire loads to the isolated areas where a grid is not accessible. The control strategy is based on the indirect current control of the VSC (voltage source converter) using the frequency PI controller. The proposed controller consists of three single-phase IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Junction Transistor) based VSC, which are connected to each phase of the IAG through three single phase transformers and a battery at their DC link. The controller has the capability of controlling reactive and active powers to regulate the magnitude and frequency of the generated voltage, harmonic elimination, load balancing and neutral current compensation. The proposed isolated system is modeled and simulated in MATLAB using Simulink and PSB (Power System Block-set) toolboxes to verify the performance of the controller.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.511-517
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• 2015

Determination of the required reserve capacity has an important function in operation of power system and it is calculated based on the largest loss of supply. However, conventional method cannot be applied in future power system, because potential grid-connected distributed generator and abnormal temperature cause the large load imbalance. Therefore this paper address new framework for determining the optimal required reserve capacity taking into account the real time load imbalance. At first, we introduce the way of operating reserve resources which are the secondary, tertiary, Direct Load Control (DLC) and Load shedding reserves to make up the load imbalance. Then, the formulated problem can be solved by the Probabilistic Dynamic Programming (PDP) method. In case study, we divide two cases for comparing the cost function between the conventional method and the proposed method.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.1352-1364
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• 2013

This paper describes a novel structure for single phase Unified Power Quality Conditioner-Distributed Generation (UPQC-DG) with direct grid connected DC-AC converter for low DC output DG systems which can be used not only for compensation of power quality problems but also for supplying of load power partly. This converter has been composed of one full-bridge inverter, one three winding high frequency transformer with galvanic isolation and two cycloconverters. Proper control based on Input Output feedback Linearization is used to tracking the reference signals. The simulation and experimental results are presented to confirm the validity of the proposed approach.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1312-1314
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• 2001

This paper presents a constant power controller for doubly-fed. Induction generators used in wind turbines. When the stator side of the generator is connected to the grid, the generated power depends on the rotor current. To control the rotor current based on it's average value, a cost effective SPC (Slip Power Controller) was developed and is ready for testing with an actual 660KW generator system. Experiment results are presented and discussed.