• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.5893-5898
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• 2014

본 논문은 연료비를 최소화 할 수 있는 2차전지 전력저장장치(BESS: Battery Energy Storage System)와 풍력-디젤 복합발전시스템으로 구성되는 독립형 마이크로그리드을 모델링하는 방법과 그 운전제어 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 먼저, 부하변동 및 풍속변동에 따른 주파수와 전압을 일정하게 제어할 수 있는 양방향 DC/AC 컨버터의 BESS를 모델링하고, 디젤발전기는 공급전력의 부족 및 BESS의 충전시에만 가동하도록 하는 운전제어알고리즘을 제안한다. 그리고, 제안된 모델링 방법과 운전제어알고리즘을 독립형 마이크로그리드에 적용한 결과, 풍속 및 부하변화에 대하여 주파수와 전압변동이 적정범위내로 유지할 수 있음을 증명할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.234-243
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• 2019

Studying the control strategy of a microgrid under the load unbalanced state helps to improve the stability of the system. The magnitude of the power fluctuation, which occurs between the power supply and the load, is generated in a microgrid under the load unbalanced state is called negative sequence reactive power $Q^-$. Traditional power distribution methods such as P-f, Q-E droop control can only distribute power with positive sequence current information. However, they have no effect on $Q^-$ with negative sequence current information. In this paper, a stationary-frame control method for power sharing and voltage unbalance compensation in islanded microgrids is proposed. This method is based on the proper output impedance control of distributed generation unit (DG unit) interface converters. The control system of a DG unit mainly consists of an active-power-frequency and reactive-power-voltage droop controller, an output impedance controller, and voltage and current controllers. The proposed method allows for the sharing of imbalance current among the DG unit and it can compensate voltage unbalance at the same time. The design approach of the control system is discussed in detail. Simulation and experimental results are presented. These results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective in the compensation of voltage unbalance and the power distribution.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1658-1671
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• 2017

To address the inaccurate load demand sharing problems among parallel inverter-interfaced voltage-controlled distributed generation (DG) units in islanded microgrids (MGs) with different DG power ratings and mismatched feeder impedances, an enhanced voltage control scheme based on the active compensation of circulating voltage drops is proposed in this paper. Using the proposed strategy, reactive power and harmonic currents are shared accurately and proportionally without knowledge of the feeder impedances. Since the proposed local controller consists of two well-separated fundamental and harmonic voltage control branches, the reactive power and harmonic currents can be independently shared without having a remarkable effect on the amplitude or quality of the DGs voltage, even if nonlinear (harmonic) loads are directly connected at the output terminals of the units. In addition, accurate load sharing can also be attained when the plug-and-play performance of DGs and various loading conditions are applied to MGs. The effects of communication failures and latency on the performance of the proposed strategy are also explored. The design process of the proposed control system is presented in detail and comprehensive simulation studies on a three-phase MG are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.

• 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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• 제17권3호
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• pp.744-755
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• 2017

With the high penetration of various sustainable energy sources, the control and protection of Microgrids has become a challenging problem considering the inherent current limitation feature of inverter-based Distributed Generators (DGs) and the bidirectional power flow in Microgrids. In this paper, a hybrid control and protection scheme is proposed, which combines the traditional inverse-time overcurrent protection with the biased differential protection for different feeders with different kinds of loads. It naturally accommodates various control strategies such as P-Q control and V-f control. The parameter settings of the protection scheme are analyzed and calculated through a fast Fourier transform algorithm, and the stability of the control strategy is discussed by building a small signal model in MATLAB. Different operation modes such as the grid-connected mode, the islanding mode, and the transitions between these two modes are ensured. A Microgrid model is established in PSCAD and the analysis results show that a Microgrid system can be effectively protected against different faults such as the single phase to ground and the three phase faults in both the grid-connected and islanded operation modes.

• 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.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2015년도 제46회 하계학술대회
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• pp.519-520
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 최적화를 적용하여 독립형 마이크로그리드 내에서 신재생 발전원의 설치 비율을 산정한다. 계통과 독립되어 있는 마이크로그리드에서의 발전원을 신재생 에너지원인 풍력 및 태양광, 그리고 에너지저장장치(Energy Storage System, ESS)만으로 가정하여 마이크로그리드의 부하규모에 맞는 신재생 에너지 발전원의 비율을 제시한다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.6419-6424
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• 2015

현재 도서지역에 도입되어 운용되고 있는 풍력-디젤 하이브리드 발전시스템에는 풍속과 부하변동에 대하여 적정범위의 전압주파수를 갖는 전력을 공급하기 위하여 고가의 제어가 복잡한 플라이휘일 또는 배터리 에너지저장장치를 설치운영하고 있다. 그러나, 본 논문은 이와 같이 비경제적이고 복잡도가 높은 에너지저장장치를 설치하지 않고, 풍속 및 부하변동에도 안정적인 운전이 가능한 영구자석형(PMSG: Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator) 풍력-디젤 복합발전시스템으로 구성되는 독립형 마이크로그리드의 운전제어 알고리즘과 모델링 방법을 제안하였다. 먼저, 부하 및 풍속변동에 관계없이 적정범위의 전압주파수를 유지할 수 있는 PMSG 풍력발전기의 운전제어 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이를 바탕으로 한 전가변속 운전이 가능한 PMSG, WT측 컨버터 및 Grid측 컨버터를 모델링하고, 이를 독립형 마이크로그리드에 적용하여 풍속 및 부하변화에 대하여 전압주파수가 적정범위내로 잘 유지됨을 입증하였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.46-53
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• 2013

This paper introduces a grid-interactive storage system to operate the customers without voltage source inverters as a microgrid. The proposed storage system does not require any modification of the control scheme of the inverters existing within the customers. Novel control scheme of the grid-interfacing storage system according to its new structure ensures the seamless transition between the grid-connected and islanded operation of the microgrid.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권1호
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• pp.80-84
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• 2012

Recently, the small scale photovoltaic (PV) electronic devices are drawing attention as the upcoming PV generation system. The PV system is commonly used in small scale PV applications such as LED lighting and cell phone. This paper proposes photovoltaic output sensorless (POS) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control for a small scale charging system of PV-nickel metal hydride battery using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) controller. A converter is connected to a small scale PV cell and battery, and performs the POS MPPT at the battery terminal current instead of being at the PV cell output voltage and current. The FPGA controller and converter operate based on POS MPPT method. The experimental results show that the nickel metal hydride battery is charged by the maximum PV output power.