• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.81-90
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• 2015

This paper investigates the droop control-based real and reactive power load sharing with a virtual inductor when the line impedance between inverter and Point of Common Coupling (PCC) is partly and unequally resistive in high-capacity systems. In this paper, the virtual inductor method is applied to parallel inverter systems with resistive and inductive line impedance. Reactive power sharing error has been improved by applying droop control after considering each line impedance voltage drop. However, in high capacity parallel systems with large output current, the reference output voltage, which is the output of droop controller, becomes lower than the rated value because of the high voltage drop from virtual inductance. Hence, line impedance voltage drop has been added to the droop equation so that parallel inverters operate within the range of rated output voltage. Additionally, the virtual inductor value has been selected via small signal modeling to analyze stability in transient conditions. Finally, the proposed droop method has been verified by MATLAB and PSIM simulation.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.11
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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.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.4
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• pp.582-588
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• 2008

Microgrids are new distribution level power networks that consist of various electronically-interlaced generators and sensitive loads. The important control object of Microgrids is to supply reliable and high-quality power even during the faults or loss of mains(islanding) cases. This paper presents power control methods to coordinate multiple distributed generators(DGs) against abnormal cases such as islanding and load power variations. Using speed-droop and voltage-droop characteristics, multiple distributed generators can share the load power based on locally measured signals without any communications between them. This paper adopts the droop controllers for multiple DG control and improved them by considering the generation speed of distribution level generators. Dynamic response of the proposed control scheme has been investigated under severe operation cases such as islanding and abrupt load changes through PSCAD/EMTDC simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.17-18
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 DC droop control을 적용한 80kW급 SiC 양방향 컨버터를 제안한다. 시스템은 20kW 모듈 4개를 이용하는 모듈형 컨버터이며, 토폴로지는 넓은 입력전압 범위를 만족하기 위하여 Cascade 부스트-벅 컨버터 구조이다. 모듈 컨버터의 제어는 모듈 간 통신이 필요 없는 DC droop control에 부하분담과 전압 regulation 성능을 모두 향상시키기 위하여 Secondary control을 적용했다. 제안하는 시스템의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 20kW급 시작품 2대 실험을 통해 병렬 운전을 검증하였으며, 14kW에서 최고 효율 98.9%를 달성하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.479-486
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• 2013

This paper presents a control strategy for distributed systems, which can be used in islanded microgrids. The control strategy is based on the droop method, which uses locally measured feedback to achieve load current sharing. Instead of the traditional droop method, an improved one is implemented. A virtual inductor in the synchronous frame for three-phase inverters is proposed to deal with the coupling of the frequency and the amplitude related to the active and reactive power. Compared with the traditional virtual inductor, the proposed virtual inductor is not affected by high frequency noises because it avoids differential calculations. A model is given for the distributed generation system, which is beneficial for the design of the droop coefficients and the value of the virtual inductor. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by simulation and experiment results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.10-17
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• 2006

NACA23012익형에 대하여 synthetic jet을 이용하여 박리 제어를 수행하였다. 공력특성의 향상을 위해 앞전 droop과 plain flap의 박리 부근에 synthetic jet을 위치시켰다. 고 받음각에서 앞전 박리의 발생으로 인한 실속을 앞전 droop의 작동과 이때 발생하는 앞전 박리를 synthetic jet으로 효과적으로 지연시킬 수 있고, 또한 실속 특성을 개선 할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 양력의 향상을 위하여 plain flap을 장착하였고, 이때 발생하는 박리를 synthetic jet으로 지연시켜 제어면의 작동 효율을 증가 시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 앞전 droop과 plain flap으로 구성된 간단한 고양력 장치에 발생하는 박리를 synthetic jet으로 제어함으로 실속을 지연시킴과 동시에 실속 특성을 향상시키고, 최대 양력의 증가로 fowler flap에 버금가는 공력특성을 확보할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.65-66
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• 2012

부하 시스템의 용량 증대와 중요도에 따른 신뢰성 향상을 위해 Uninterruptible Power Supply(UPS)의 병렬운전 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문은 droop특성을 적용한 3상 UPS의 병렬운전 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또, 기존의 droop 제어기를 적용한 UPS의 plug-and-play(PnP) 운전시 순환 전류의 원인을 분석하고 PnP 운전이 가능한 droop 제어기를 제안한다. 그리고 제안된 알고리즘의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 PSIM을 통해 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1363-1369
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• 2015

The frequency of a power system should be maintained within the allowed limits for stable operation. When a disturbance such as generator tripping occurs in a power system, the frequency is recovered to the nominal value through the inertial, primary, and secondary responses of the operating synchronous generators (SGs). However, for a power system with high wind penetration, the system inertia will decrease significantly because wind generators (WGs) are operating decoupled from the power system. This paper proposes a dynamic droop-based inertial control for a WG. The proposed inertial control determines the dynamic droop depending on the rate of change of frequency (ROCOF). At the initial period of a disturbance, where the ROCOF is large, the droop is set to be small to release a large amount of the kinetic energy (KE) and thus the frequency nadir can be increased significantly. However, as times goes on, the ROCOF will decrease and thus the droop is set to be large to prevent over-deceleration of the rotor speed of a WG. The performance of the proposed inertial control was investigated in a model system, which includes a 200 MW wind power plant (WPP) and five SGs using an EMTP-RV simulator. The test results indicate that the proposed scheme improves the frequency nadir significantly by releasing a large amount of the KE during the initial period of a disturbance.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.11
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• pp.1584-1589
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• 2012

The grid-interconnected microgrid can be able to operate with and without the utility microgrid to supply electricity. when the microgrid operates in grid-connected mode, the frequency of the microgrid synchronizes with the system frequency. In this case, the frequency of the microgrid has small variation which is able to change the output of distributed generation with a droop controller. Thus, the small variation of frequency can make the distributed generation generate unnecessary electricity consistently. In this paper, we propose a frequency droop control with a dead band so as to prevent the distributed generations from generating unnecessary output while in grid-interconnected mode. In addition, a distributed generation can have a restoration control to restore the frequency changed by a droop control as a rated frequency. Also, we state the problem of restoration control with a dead band, and propose its solution when the microgrid operates in stand alone mode. We simulate the proposed droop control using PSCAD/EMTDC to verify the validity of the control.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.294-304
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• 2017

This paper proposes a point of common coupling (PCC) voltage compensation method for islanding microgrids using an improved power sharing control scheme among distributed generators (DGs) without communication. The PCC voltage compensation algorithm is implemented in the droop control scheme to reduce the PCC voltage deviation produced by the droop controller itself and the voltage drop on the line impedance. The control scheme of each individual DG unit is designed to use only locally measured feedback variables and an obtained line impedance to calculate the PCC voltage. Therefore, traditional voltage measurement devices installed at the PCC as well as communication between the PCC and the DGs are not required. The proposed control scheme can maintain the PCC voltage amplitude within an allowed range even to some extent assuming inaccurate line impedance parameters. In addition, it can achieve proper power sharing in islanding microgrids. Experimental results obtained under accurate and inaccurate line impedances are presented to show the performance of the proposed control scheme in islanding microgrids.