TY - JOUR
T1 - Priority-based Energy Management Technique for Integration of Solar PV, Battery, and Fuel Cell Systems in an Autonomous DC Microgrid
AU - Azharuddin Shamshuddin, Mohammed
AU - Babu, Thanikanti Sudhakar
AU - Dragicevic, Tomislav
AU - Miyatake, Masafumi
AU - Rajasekar, Natarajan
PY - 2017/10/21
Y1 - 2017/10/21
N2 - Recent times have witnessed a significant positive trend in adoption of renewable energy sources and DC-based loads, which questions the efficiency and reliability of existing structure of electrical power system. DC microgrids are identified as potential solutions for addressing India's and other developing nations' rural electrification. This paper presents an energy management technique for isolated DC microgrids for academic readers, as well as provides an introduction to not-familiarized readers for understanding the common design challenges for implementing off-grid power systems. The principle of the proposed technique is based on law of energy conservation defined by the energy balance equation and is implemented by synthesizing the instantaneous current reference and hysteresis control with source priority, which was validated by rigors simulation studies in Matlab/Simulink. Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the modularity and scalability of the algorithm, it was tested on a prototype hardware test setup at the Solar Energy Research Centre, VIT University.
AB - Recent times have witnessed a significant positive trend in adoption of renewable energy sources and DC-based loads, which questions the efficiency and reliability of existing structure of electrical power system. DC microgrids are identified as potential solutions for addressing India's and other developing nations' rural electrification. This paper presents an energy management technique for isolated DC microgrids for academic readers, as well as provides an introduction to not-familiarized readers for understanding the common design challenges for implementing off-grid power systems. The principle of the proposed technique is based on law of energy conservation defined by the energy balance equation and is implemented by synthesizing the instantaneous current reference and hysteresis control with source priority, which was validated by rigors simulation studies in Matlab/Simulink. Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the modularity and scalability of the algorithm, it was tested on a prototype hardware test setup at the Solar Energy Research Centre, VIT University.
KW - autonomous DC microgrid
KW - design of off-grid power system
KW - energy management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041016126&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15325008.2017.1378949
DO - 10.1080/15325008.2017.1378949
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85041016126
SN - 1532-5008
VL - 45
SP - 1881
EP - 1891
JO - Electric Power Components and Systems
JF - Electric Power Components and Systems
IS - 17
ER -