Solar PV-connected distributed utility grid often faces several issues due to variable penetration of the generated power. It creates frequent disturbance in load side and increases the voltage instability. It is a great challenge to maintain the stability at distributed low-voltage grid and improve the quality of power. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes an adaptive voltage and current regulatory approach to improve the power quality in a solar PV-integrated low-voltage utility grid. It supplies auto-adjustable reactive power during the small and large voltage deviations in the grid. The proposed approach assures that the load bus voltage is maintained at 1 p.u. under variable environmental conditions. In addition, the power quality gets improved by injecting the power with improved quality. Three cases of standalone mode, grid-connected modes with and without STATCOM have been investigated and reported in this paper. To validate the proposed adaptive voltage and current regulatory approach, the dynamic results of regulated grid voltage under poor environmental conditions are analyzed and the measured results are presented in this paper. Furthermore, the obtained results are evaluated with the existing approaches such as BAT, firefly and elephant herding optimization (EHO) algorithms and reported in this paper.
Aims:
Aim of this research is to propose a novel concurrent UPQC scheme for improving the power quality issues in grid integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
Background:
The power quality is a major issue for the grid integration of renewable energy sources. Issues like voltage sag, voltage swell, harmonics & non-linear load variations are certainly observed in the distributed energy system and it is mandated that any system has to depend on advanced controllers to improve power quality and stabilize the electrical parameters. Controller related power quality improvements are a bit easier to design but the tuning of power is difficult in this aspect.
Objective:
In order to overcome the aforesaid limitation, this particular paper proposes a new concurrent UPQC scheme for improving the four different power quality issues in grid integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) system such as voltage sag, voltage swell, non-linear load variations and current harmonics.
Method:
The operating regions of each power quality issues are examined in the I-V curves of PV specifications and the new operating modes of PV systems are mapped for every quality improvement considering the power, current and frequency of the grid and load as well. The pool of solutions is developed from the real power, reactive power and converter duty cycle and verified with the proposed solutions. Additionally, the designed switching frequency of the proposed system has a 5% variation for practical irradiance. The PV uniform irradiance profile matches the real power for various proposed concurrent UPQC schemes.
Result:
Finally, the simulation results are presented to validate the operation of the proposed concurrent UPQC schemes for PV system. The comparative study of the proposed concurrent UPQC scheme for PV system with appropriate literature is presented. The superiority of the proposed schemes infers studying the odd harmonic components up to 100th order after implementing the proposed concurrent UPQC scheme for PV system.
conclusion:
From the measured results, it is concluded that a new concurrent optimization scheme enhance the operation of solar PV system integrate with grid. The power quality issues like voltage & current swell, voltage & current sag, voltage imbalance, Harmonics are reduced compared to exiting methods. The validation of the schemes is achieved through the group constraints and the operating slopes in each region.
Conclusion:
From the measured results, it is concluded that a new concurrent optimization scheme enhances the operation of solar PV system that integrates with the grid. The power quality issues like voltage & current swell, voltage & current sag, voltage imbalance, and harmonics are reduced compared to existing methods. The validation of the schemes is achieved through the group constraints and the operating slopes in each region.
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