• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.1119-1124
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• 2014

High temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage (HTS SMES) is known as an effective solution to significantly decrease the voltage and power fluctuations of grid connected wind power generation system (WPGS). This paper implements an effective control scheme of a back-toback converter with shunt-connected HTS SMES for the frequency regulation of an islanded microgrid. The back-to-back converter is used to connect the WPGS to the grid. A large-scale HTS SMES is linked to the DC side of the back-to-back converter through a two-quadrant DC/DC chopper. An adaptive control strategy is implemented for the back-to-back converter and the two-quadrant DC/DC chopper to improve the efficiency of the whole system. The performance of the proposed control system was evaluated in a test power system using PSCAD/EMTDC. The simulation results clearly show that the back-to-back converter with shunt-connected HTS SMES operates effectively with the proposed control strategy for stabilizing the power system frequency fluctuations.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.569-575
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• 2017

This paper proposes a method to utilize an energy storage system (ESS) based on the assessment of an area of severity (AOS) to voltage sag. The AOS is defined as a set of the fault positions that can cause voltage sags at many buses simultaneously. The assessment of AOS helps to determine an optimal location of ESS installation to minimize the expected sag frequency (ESF) at concerned buses. The ESS has the ability not only to play traditionally known roles but also to mitigate voltage sag impact on renewable energy sources (RES) in the islanded microgrid. Accordingly, using the proposed method the ESS has additional features to prevent the operation failure of RESs and improve the stability of the microgrid. In order to verify the presented method, a case study was conducted on the sample microgrid system that is modified from an IEEE 57-bus system.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권11호
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• pp.1954-1961
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• 2008

Microgrid usually consists of a cluster of distributed generators(DGs), energy storage systems and loads, and can operate in the grid-connected mode and the islanded mode. This paper presents detailed descriptions of two different options for controlling the active power of DGs in the microgrid. One is regulating the power injected by the unit to a desired amount(Unit output power control) and the other is to regulate the flow of active power in the feeder where the unit is installed to a constant(Feeder flow control). Frequency-droop characteristics are used to achieve good active power sharing when the microgrid operates in the islanded mode. The change in the frequency and the active power output of DGs are investigated according to the control mode and the configuration of DGs when the microgrid is disconnected from the main grid. From the analysis, this paper proposes a method to determine the droop constant of DGs operating in the feeder flow control mode. Simulation results using the PSCAD/EMTDC are presented to validate the approach, which shows good performance as opposed to the conventional one.

• 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.

• 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.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.125-132
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• 2012

마이크로그리드(microgrid)의 독립적 운용방식(islanded operation mode)에서는 전력 공급량과 전력 수요량 사이의 균형을 맞추기 위하여 부하차단(load shedding) 기법이 사용된다. 기존의 부하차단 기법들은 부하의 요구량이 연속적인 값의 범위를 갖는다고 가정하였다. 그러나 일부 부하는 이산적인 정수 값을 사용하여 자신의 요구량을 나타낸다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 독립형 운용방식 환경에서 부하 요구량의 이산적인 특성을 고려한 부하차단 기법을 다중 에이전트 시스템을 이용하여 설계한다. 또한 시스템 구조, 에이전트 기능, 그리고 에이전트 간 통신 프로토콜을 추가로 정의 및 확장함으로써 시스템을 구현하였으며, 구현된 시스템을 기반으로 다양한 시나리오 환경에서의 실험을 통하여 그 성능을 증명하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.505_506
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• 2009

This paper presents effective operation methods for the battery energy storage applied to a microgrid. In an islanded microgrid, energy storage is needed to satisfy an energy balance between generation and consumption. The microgrid can be classified according to the ratio of the sensitive load and renewable energy source in the microgrid. For effective management of the battery energy storage, based on the classified microgrid, suitable operation methods for the battery energy storage system are provided from well-known battery applications.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.465-472
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• 2016

A nonlinear load causes harmonic distortion and hampers the performance of other loads or distributed generation (DG) sources connected to the point of common coupling (PCC). This study proposes a new control strategy to reduce harmonic components, such as fifth and seventh harmonics, at the PCC under nonlinear loads in islanded microgrids, which comprise more than two DG sources. The proposed control scheme enables the DG source to share the power commanded by the control center as well as to compensate for the voltage harmonics at the PCC. The reference current is estimated from the voltage harmonics and injecting power; thus, the control scheme is implemented without any additional hardware devices. The simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1650-1657
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• 2017

In this study, the distributed secondary voltage control of islanded microgrids with multi-agent consensus algorithm is investigated. As an alternative to a time-triggered approach, an event-triggered scheme is proposed to reduce the communication load among inverter-based distributed generators (DGs). The proposed aperiodic control scheme reduced unnecessary utilization of limited network bandwidth without degrading control performance. By properly establishing a distributed triggering condition in DG local controller, each inverter is only required to send voltage information when its own event occurs. The compensation of voltage amplitude deviation can be realized, and redundant data exchange related to fixed high sampling rate can be avoided. Therefore, an efficient use of communication infrastructure can be realized, particularly when the system is operating in steady state. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by simulations on a microgrid test system.

• 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.