TY - JOUR
T1 - Decentralized Method for Load Sharing and Power Management in a PV/Battery Hybrid Source Islanded Microgrid
AU - Karimi, Yaser
AU - Oraee, Hashem
AU - Golsorkhi, Mohammad
AU - Guerrero, Josep M.
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - This paper proposes a new decentralized power management and load sharing method for a photovoltaic based islanded microgrid consisting of various PV units, battery units and hybrid PV/battery units. Unlike the previous methods in the literature, there is no need to communication among the units and the proposed method is not limited to the systems with separate PV and battery units or systems with only one hybrid unit. The proposed method takes into account the available PV power and battery conditions of the units to share the load among them. To cover all possible conditions of the microgrid, the operation of each unit is divided into five states and modified active power-frequency droop functions are used according to operating states. The frequency level is used as trigger for switching between the states. Efficacy of the proposed method in different load, PV generation and battery conditions is validated experimentally in a microgrid lab prototype consisted of three units.
AB - This paper proposes a new decentralized power management and load sharing method for a photovoltaic based islanded microgrid consisting of various PV units, battery units and hybrid PV/battery units. Unlike the previous methods in the literature, there is no need to communication among the units and the proposed method is not limited to the systems with separate PV and battery units or systems with only one hybrid unit. The proposed method takes into account the available PV power and battery conditions of the units to share the load among them. To cover all possible conditions of the microgrid, the operation of each unit is divided into five states and modified active power-frequency droop functions are used according to operating states. The frequency level is used as trigger for switching between the states. Efficacy of the proposed method in different load, PV generation and battery conditions is validated experimentally in a microgrid lab prototype consisted of three units.
KW - PV power curtailment
KW - Decentralized power management
KW - Hybrid source microgrid
KW - Hybrid PV/battery unit
KW - SoC
U2 - 10.1109/TPEL.2016.2582837
DO - 10.1109/TPEL.2016.2582837
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0885-8993
VL - 32
SP - 3525
EP - 3535
JO - I E E E Transactions on Power Electronics
JF - I E E E Transactions on Power Electronics
IS - 5
ER -