A hierarchical control strategy of microgrids toward reliability enhancement

Yanbo Wang, Dong Liu, Zhe Chen, Ping Liu

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Abstract

Reliability and operation efficiency are important concerns in microgrids. Existing hierarchical control strategies have paid limited attentions on these topics. This paper presents a reliability-oriented hierarchical control strategy to enhance operation efficiency and long-term reliability of microgrids. The proposed hierarchical control strategy is composed of three levels. (1) In primary control level, lifetime-oriented droop control strategy is proposed to perform equal thermal sharing among paralleled inverters. (2) In secondary control level, efficiency optimization control and active thermal management are developed to improve operation efficiency of microgrids under different load profiles and long-term reliability. (3) Tertiary control is presented to mitigate harmonic resonance of microgrid by impedance optimization in weak grid. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed hierarchical control structure is able to perform equal thermal sharing, and improve operation efficiency under different load profiles, and mitigate harmonic resonance in weak grid. Therefore, the proposed hierarchical control is able to enhance operation performance of microgrids.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 6th international conference on Smart Grid
Number of pages6
PublisherIEEE Press
Publication dateDec 2018
Pages123-128
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-8485-6
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-8484-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018
Event2018 International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid) - Nagasaki, Japan
Duration: 4 Dec 20186 Dec 2018

Conference

Conference2018 International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid)
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagasaki
Period04/12/201806/12/2018

Keywords

  • Hierarchical Control
  • reliability
  • droop control
  • Microgrid
  • Resonance

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