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B. Operational mode 2
In this mode, the RES participates in the dc bus voltage Mode 1 MPPT Off-MPPT Mode 2
regulation, as all the ESUs are not allowed for absorbing more
power, i.e. reach their limitations of SoC, and hence they are
not capable to regulate the dc bus voltage alone. In this case, Udc<Udc_ref
the RES needs to be switched to the off-MPPT mode so as to
Fig. 3. Transition process between MPPT and off-MPPT for PVs
reduce the output power generation whilst meeting the
requirement of load demand, and hence help to regulate the III. SOC-BASED ESU ADAPTIVE CURRENT SHARING CONTROL
bus voltage to the referenced value. AND PV OFF-MPPT CONTROL
C. Transition between modes In the dc bus, multiple PVs and ESUs are connected in
parallel, and the control structure of the proposed voltage
In this work, the transition between the two aforementioned
regulation solution is illustrated in Fig. 4, including the SoC-
modes is determined based on the dc bus voltage U dc , as
based adaptive current sharing controller for buck-boost
illustrated in Fig. 2. It is considered that once the bus voltage converter and MPPT/off-MPPT controller for boost converter.
exceeds a predefined proportion of the reference bus voltage
U dc _ ref ( U dc 1.02U dc _ ref is adopted in this study), the A. SoC-based adaptive current sharing in ESUs
In the converter, an autonomous dc bus voltage adaptive
microgrid operation switches from mode 1 to mode 2. In the
regulation approach incorporating the state of charge (SoC)
case that the bus voltage U dc<U dc _ ref , the operation is
information into the double closed-loop control is adopted.
switched to mode 1. As the proposed control solution is This ensures the ac bus voltage to be accurately maintained at
carried out autonomously at individual components (i.e. ESUs the reference value, simultaneously minimize the difference of
and PVs), the control decision-making is made merely based SoC among distributed ESUs, which effectively avoids the
on the local information and the common dc bus voltage, deep charging or over-discharging in certain ESUs.
without communication between parallel-connected converters. The proportional-integral (PI) based control has been
Similar philosophy of mode switching is adopted in [10], while widely adopted in microgrids for various management
our solution implements different control functionalities (e.g. functionalities, e.g. voltage control and frequency stabilization,
ESU current sharing and PV off-MPPT control). due to its low complexity in implementation and configuration
Udc 1.02Udc_ref (e.g. [10]). In this work, the PI controller is used in voltage
regulation to minimize or eliminate the bus voltage deviation
RES (MPPT) RES (off-MPPT)
from the reference voltage. The proposed controller for the
Mode 1 Mode 2 bidirectional dc/dc buck-boost converter is driven by the
ESU (Current ESU (Charging
complementary pulse width modulation (PWM) of ESUs. As
sharing control) limited control) the ESUs need to work in both discharge and charging
Udc<Udc_ref
processes, the converter needs to act as either a boost or buck
Fig. 2 Transition process between two operational modes. converter for different scenarios, respectively, and ST2 can be
controlled through the complementary PWM wave with ST1.
It is noted that the ESUs participate in the bus voltage
The controller consists of an external voltage control loop and
regulation for both modes (i.e. ESUs based regulation in mode
an internal current loop. The difference between U dc and the
1, and ESU-PV based regulation in mode 2), and hence the
converter control structure needs no alteration. For RES, the expected reference voltage, U dc _ ref , is made available to the
PVs are operated in either MPPT (mode 1) or off-MPPT outer PI controller to obtain the output current reference,
(mode 2). As the dc bus voltage U dc is the indicator of power I L _ nref , which acts as the input signal of the inner loop to
balance of the islanded system, U dc is adopted as the obtain the appropriate duty ratio for PWM signal, and hence
switching signal in the PV control loop. Fig. 3 illustrates the minimize the voltage deviation to be zero. The same
transition between two modes: in the case that the ESUs is in configurations of double closed-loop are adopted in individual
the charging mode, and the bus voltage U dc 1.02U dc _ ref , the ESUs (assuming that the same converter type is adopted for all
control of PVs is required to regulate the bus voltage through ESUs). From Fig.2, the output of the outer control loop can be
switching the PV from MPPT mode to off-MPPT mode. expressed as the following form: t
Conversely, the operation of PVs will be switched from off- U i* k p (U dc _ ref U dc ) kI (U dc _ ref U dc )dt (1)
0
MPPT to MPPT mode if the ESUs are in discharging mode or
where k p and k I are the proportionality and integral
U dc drops below the reference bus voltage (i.e. U dc<U dc _ ref )
coefficient of the outer loop, respectively. In (1), if U i* 0 ,
due to PV operation in off-MPPT mode.
the ESU operates in the discharging mode (otherwise operates
in the charging mode).
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L iL_n
ST2
io_n Re DC bus Rp D1 iL_m L iPV_m
PWM_n ie ip
udc Loads PWM ST1 u PV_m PVm
ESU_n Ub_n C1 ST1 C2 C
controller controller
Ui* i _nref
L PWM_n MPPT or Upv_refm
PI Kn PI comparator ST1 i _refm
Udc_ref off-MPPT PI
L
PI comparator
PWM
ST1
i
L_n algorithm
Uc2 ie R e * i
ip R p * L_m
*
Ui udc Ipv_m Upv_m Uc
Fig. 4 Control structure of the proposed voltage regulation in islanded dc microgrid (SoC-based adaptive current sharing of ESUs and MPPT/off-MPPT control of PVs)
The SoC status SoCn and SoC decreasing speed of the From (3) and (5), the current sharing among individual
th
n ESU SoCn ' can be determined by (2)-(4) [24]: ESUs during charging/discharging process can be expressed in
(7) and (8), respectively. It indicates that the current sharing
t
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In the controller design, virtual resistances, Re* Re and and balances the system power rapidly by reducing the PV
R Rp , for ESUs and PVs are adopted in the outer voltage
* generation drastically. The U pv will be reduced to a b / 2 ,
p
control loop to compensate the voltage drop due to the line and the upper limit of the searching range is updated to
resistance as follows: b (a b)/ 2 after this perturbation and the next perturbation
U dc _ ref U c 2 ie Re* U c 2 ie Re U pv (k 1) is set to the mean value of the updated range of
*
(9) a, b if U dc U dc _ ref . Such perturbation is repeated and the
U pv _ refm U c i p R p U c i p R p
upper limit is updated until U dc U dc _ ref ; finally the lower
B. MPPT/Off-MPPT control of RES/PV limit is updated to a (a b)/ 2 and S is set to 1;
The operation of connected PV generators needs to be (2) Fine tuning: following the coarse tuning, it attempts to
switched into off-MPPT from MPPT mode in the case that find the appropriate U pv to maximize the ESU utilization by
ESUs cannot regulate the bus voltage alone. Unlike the MPPT
increasing the PV generation tardily base on the search range
control, the aim of proposed off-MPPT control is to make the
operation of individual PVs deviate from their maximum of a, b . Here, U pv k 1 is set to a b / 2 , after the
power points to reduce generation for voltage regulation. In voltage perturbation, the upper limit b is replaced by
this study, the voltage perturbation method combined with the a b / 2 if U dc U dc _ ref . Otherwise, a b / 2 substitutes
successive approximation algorithm is adopted for PVs to
for the lower limit a . Such fine tuning is repeated until the
autonomously identify the appropriate PV output voltage, U pv ,
absolute difference u between two adjacent perturbations is
to achieve the power balance as well as the maximum
utilization of ESUs. The idea behind the off-MPPT control is less than a predefined value ,which is sufficiently small to
as following: a larger voltage disturbance step is firstly applied indicate that the appropriate U pv has been identified.
for U pv to search for the general range of the target voltage,
then the voltage disturbance step is scaled down exponentially IV. SIMULATION EXPERIMENT AND NUMERICAL RESULT
upon every perturbation to incrementally reduce the searching This section assesses the performance of the proposed
range, until the target operating point is converged. control solution through simulation experiments for the dc
Fig. 5 illustrated that, a global variable S is introduced to microgrid consisting of three distributed lead-acid batteries
indicate if the PV generation is sufficiently small in off-MPPT (assuming constant charging/discharging efficiency of 0.95
mode. The initial S and closed search range a, b are set to 0 during simulation) with different capacities and three PV
generators. The dc microgrid components and control
and 0,U pv _ 0 , respectively, where U pv _ 0 represents the algorithm are implemented based on Matlab/Simulink1 and the
sample of U pv when the PVs are switched from MPPT to off- simulation parameters are provided in Table I. The
performance evaluation is carried out through simulation for
MPPT mode, S 0 means the output power is still high in the five different operational scenarios, including load dynamics,
current search range, and the bus voltage U dc is introduced as transition between charging and discharging, dynamic ESU
an important criterion to search the target voltage since U dc is connection and disconnection.
TABLE I: SIMULATION PARAMETERS
the symbol indicating the power balance of the dc microgrid. Item Symbol Value Unit
In detail, the proposed off-MPPT control algorithm can be C1
Rated capacity of ESU 1 25 Ah
implemented through two steps:
Rated capacity of ESU 2 C2 12.5 Ah
Initialize
[a,b]=[0,upv_0],S=0 Rated capacity of ESU 3 C3 20 Ah
Max. ESU discharging/charging I d _ max / I c _ max 100/50 A
Collect upv(k)、udc(k) current
Calculate uerr=udc(k)-udc_ref ESU nominal voltage Ub_n 380 V
∆u=upv(k)-upv(k-1)
PV output voltage at MPP U pv _ mpp 500 V
Y N (25 °C, 1000W/m2)
S=0?
PV output power at MPP Ppv _ max
Y N Y N 50 kW
uerr>0? uerr>0? (25 °C, 1000W/m2)
|∆u|≤ξ? Y Rated dc bus voltage U dc _ ref 800 V
b =(a+b)/2 S=1 b=(a+b)/2
a=(a+b)/2 N
a=(a+b)/2 b=a
A. Case I: Load dynamics in discharging mode
We firstly look into the performance of the proposed
control solution in the condition that the ESUs support the
Calculate upv(k+1)=(a+b)/2 voltage regulation through discharging under load dynamics
(load increases from 195 kW to 215 kW at t 5 min )
Fig. 5: Flowchart of off-MPPT control algorithm for PVs.
1
(1) Coarse tuning: it firstly decreases U dc to the rated level The models and algorithmic codes of the simulated ac microgrid in
Matlab/Simulink are available upon request.
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SoC [%]
60
the dc bus via cables with the line resistances of Re1 2 ,
40
Re 2 1 and Re3 0.5 (these cable resistances are applied
20
to all simulations), respectively. In this case, the dc microgrid Load increases (+20 kW)
0
is operated in Mode 1, i.e. the ESUs are responsible for bus 0 5 10 15
Time [min]
voltage regulation through current sharing control, and the PVs (a)
maintain the MPPT generation. As shown in Fig.6 (a), ESU 2.5
load increases from 195 kW to 215 kW at the time t 5 min . Compensation for voltage
deviation due to line resistance
In fact, ESU with higher initial SoC and capacity result in 800
larger current sharing coefficient, and hence contribute more Voltage drop Load increases (+20 kW) dc bus voltage
output current so as to achieve the balance among individual 780
0 5 10 15
ESUs. In addition, the ESU output voltage and dc bus voltage Time [min]
changing rates of ESUs as well as the bus voltage under ESU Load decreases
0
charging/discharging transition. During t 0 ~ 10 min , the (-25kW)
-1
ESUs are operated in the discharging mode to support the Load increases
Discharging (+15 kW) Charging
regulation of dc bus voltage. As shown in Fig. 7(a) and (b), the -2
0 5 10 15 20
ESU firstly operates in the discharging mode and SoC changes Time (min)
in the same manner as in case I. At t 5 min (load increases (b)
from 175 kW to 190 kW), SoC1 , SoC2 and SoC3 start to 830
Load increases Load decreases Load decreases
820 (+15 kW) (-50 kW) (-25 kW)
dc bus voltage [V]
790
and hence the SoC changing rates become negative (i.e. SoC
increases). At t 15 min , the load further decreases of 25 kW,
780
Discharging Charging
770
the control solution can adjust the charging rates to reach the 0 5 10 15 20
Time [min]
SoC balance among ESUs. Finally, Fig. 7(c) shows that the dc
(c)
bus voltage can be timely controlled to be maintained at 800V, Fig. 7. Control performance in charging/discharging transition (a) SoC states
although it experiences fluctuation due to load changes and of ESUs; (b) SoC changing rate of ESUs; and (c) ESU and dc bus voltage.
charging/discharging transition.
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ESU2 0 5 10
60 reconnected Time [min]
(b)
40
830
820
810
control of ESUs for current sharing and voltage regulation
800
have been confirmed (in case I to IV), this case focuses on the
790
control performance of short transient process due to mode
780 switching (involving PV MPPT/off-MPPT).
770 In this simulation, we consider two ESUs (ESU1 and ESU2)
0 5 10 13
Time [min] with the capacity of 110 Ah and 75 Ah, respectively, and the
(c) initial load is 120 kW. Fig.10 presents the result of PV
Fig. 8. Control performance under ESU dynamics (a) SoC states of ESUs; (b) operation under operational dynamics, where the maximum
SoC changing rate of ESUs; and (c) ESU and dc bus voltage.
power point varies over the simulation due to the changes of
D. Case IV: SoC balancing with different coefficients solar irradiation. The system operates in mode 1 during
In this case, the control performance against different p t 0 3 s , where three PVs are operated in the MPPT mode,
and the current is shared between two ESUs. The system is
values in the discharging mode (see equation (5) in Section III-
switched to mode 2 at t 3.1s as the dc bus voltage exceeds
A) is assessed. Here, two ESUs ( SoC1 90% , SoC2 70% )
1.05 times of U dc _ ref . This is due to the fact that the PV
and PVs are considered with the load of 175 kW. Fig. 9(a)
shows that larger coefficient p in the discharging mode leads generation exceeds the demand and the ESS charging limit is
approached when the demand is decreased by 50 kW. Thus, in
to smaller SoC differences ( SoC SoC1 SoC2 ), i.e. faster
the period of t 3 7 s , the actual power point (APP) of PVs
speed of SoC balancing is obtained. Fig. 9(b) indicates that
deviates from the maximum power point (MPP) (as shown in
although initial SoC ' SoC1 ' SoC2 ' is larger when p 10 ,
Fig. 10(a)), and simultaneously the ESUs absorb the surplus
it approaches to zero faster as larger p results in bigger energy with the charging current almost at the limited value
current difference between ESUs under the same initial (50 A) in mode 2, as shown in Fig. 10(b). It can be found in
condition. It is shown in Fig. 9(c) that, the dc bus voltage can Fig. 10(c) that U dc can be maintained to 800V in steady state
be well maintained based on the proposed control solution for
after a short disturbance during t 3 5 s , based on the
all different p values.
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proposed voltage control solution. During the period of whilst maximize the utilization of ESUs in mode 2.
t 7 10 s , the system is switched back to mode 1 as the U dc Fig.11 presents the result of bus voltage regulation using
drops at t 7s due to load is increased by 108 kW. In the proposed solution in comparison with the adaptive droop
summary, the result clearly confirms that the control solution control in [25] in the presence of load changes. As same as in
can provide appropriate current sharing among ESUs and case V (the microgrid is operated in mode 1 with the initial
stabilize the dc bus voltage under microgrid dynamics load of 140 kW), the ESUs with the outer loop PI controller
introduced by the mode transition. can maintain the bus voltage without steady-state error. Under
the condition of load decrease ( t 3 s and t 7 s ), the
MPP APP
MPPT off-MPPT MPPT
microgrid is switched to mode 2 and PV generators need to be
50 switched from MPPT to off-MPPT mode in the case that ESUs
MPP=APP=50 kW
MPP=APP=40 kW MPP= 50 kW PV1 cannot regulate the bus voltage alone. The result in Fig. 11 (a)
25
APP= 40 kW demonstrates that, through the process of off-MPPT control (as
PV output power [kW]
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 illustrated in Fig.5), PVs can identify an appropriate output
50 voltage to eliminate the bus voltage deviation. In contrast, the
MPP=APP=50 kW
25
MPP=50 kW MPP=APP=40 kW
PV2
droop based control depending on the droop coefficient in Fig.
APP=40 kW
11(b) demonstrates an obvious bus voltage deviation under
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 microgrid operational dynamics.
50 Rated bus voltage
MPP=APP=50 kW MPP=APP=50 kW Mode1 Mode2
25 PV3
MPP=40 kW 840
APP=30 kW
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 800
Time [s]
(b) 760
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