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(Islanded Mode)
+
Gd s
1
Gf sec s kpF
- kiF Emax
1 Ts kiQg
GEter s k pQg
s -
+ QG
Emin s
Q*G
(Grid Connected Mode) ω*MGter ωmax
kiPg PG
Gfter s kpPg
-
PWM
a)
Primary/Inner Control
PDER f
pDER Voltage/Current Controllers,
LPF Droop Reference r e Plant
Control Scheme Generation Complementary Stabilizing yG
+
b)
c)
Fig. 1. a) and b) Improved HDRC structure of a microgrid [4], [11], and c) Schematic of DVC-DER unit and related control system [7] ("(c) IEEE from [4], [7]”).
which includes self-tuning filter (STF), harmonic virtual VI ( s )G I s 11 G st s GV s
Z o s (5)
impedance (HVI), harmonic voltage compensator (HVC) and sC f 1 G st s GV s G v s G I s
power calculation based on harmonic power-flow (HPF)
realized by RBFNNs. The inner control loops, shown in Fig. B. Inverter Current Limiting
1(a) and (b), are incorporated for over-current protection and In [11], for the sake of improving small and, large-signal
enhance stability margins [8], [11]. The details of the stability margins and FRT capability of microgrid, the
hierarchical droop-based structure have been provided in [4]. hierarchical control scheme (briefly described in Subsection
B. Direct Voltage Control Scheme IIII.A) adds a complementary control loop. Thus, it is clear that
in this improved HDRC scheme, the Gst(s) affects the frequency
The control system of [7] includes general PMS, LCs, and
response of G(s) and Zo(s) in (4) and (5), and consequently, it
synchronization /frequency control scheme that synchronize the
results in having less short circuit level for IIDER. Based on the
independent oscillators of LCs to control microgrid frequency
idea of instantaneous saturation limit (ISL) and latched limit
in an open-loop manner by common time-reference signal
(LL) strategies [13]-[14], a current control strategy has been
based on global positioning system (GPS) (Fig. 1(c)). However,
presented in [3] for natural reference frame (NARF),
using GPS-based frequency control/synchronization is
synchronous reference frame (SYRF) and stationary reference
sometimes impossible or at least cumbersome. Moreover, the
frame (STRF) [15], using a current limiting function (CLF)
proposed hierarchical controller (Fig. 1(a)), can resolve
given by:
previously drawbacks of centralized control and conventional
droop-based controllers and require only a low-bandwidth ref i Lref, j .i ith i i
i ' L , j u ( I Lref, j th ) u th I Lref, j ; j a , b, c (6)
2
ref
communication system. More details for the hierarchical 2 I L, j 2
control structure are provided in [4], [11]. Here, the for NARF and,
instantaneous active/reactive powers of DER units and loads
i ref .i i i
are transferred to the PMS and LCs via a low-bandwidth i ' L , j L , j ithref u ( I Lref th ) u th I Lref ; j d , q ,0 (7)
ref
s1 cos 0 t fundamenta l frequency
s sin t
2 0
S s3 cos2 0 t 2 nd harmonic (11)
s 4 sin 2 0 t
higher order harmonics
So, (10) can be re-written as follows:
i t c1 cos 0 t c 2 sin 0 t c 3 cos2 0 t
(12)
c 4 sin 2 0 t
The current is sampled by a sampling period of Ts to form the
a) discrete form of (10) and the current measurement vector M as:
2N
mk c k s k kT s (13)
k 1
data window includes either pre-fault and post fault data (Fig. sum of the absolute values of rk over one cycle namely,
2(a)). Also, the signal model in the OLS method does not K
TMF rk
n
contain the added components of the SC current owing to fault (20)
k 1
clearance. Thus, the transient between normal operation and
fault condition is easily discriminated. In this paper, dissimilar to [16], the exponent n is assumed to
~
be 2 to give more emphasis on high variation levels of M from
A. Transient Monitoring Function
M.
Assuming that the current of VSC is as measured follows:
2N B. Proposed Fault Detection Scheme
i t c s t
k k
(10)
When the inverter current changes as a result of SC fault, the
k 1
reconstructed samples of its output current depart from their
One possible choice for the signals sk(t) are expressed as:
actual values. Consequently, the data window consists of both
pre-fault and pot-fault information, and the TMF increases. For
authenticity and accuracy of SC fault transient detection, the
maximum value of the TMF for phases a, b and c is used as:
J max TMFa , TMFb , TMFc (21)
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When this index exceeds its predefined threshold value Jth, the harmonic estimation process using the proposed scheme is
the fault is detected. The key point in applying this method is less than half of a cycle. But, at least one complete period is
discriminating the SC fault from the load transient switching required in the Furrier transform method. Also, the sampling
event, which highlights the importance of choosing a suitable rate is 32 samples in each cycle. This rate is suitable for
threshold value. In the proposed fault detection method, practical implementation using a very low-cost A/D chip. But,
because in three-wire VSC configuration, the TMF values of if an advanced A/D chip is available, the higher sampling rate
output current cannot be discriminated clearly in SYRF or can be chosen.
STRF, iL,abcref is used in NARF. For the four-wire VSC When a fault occurs, the voltage waveform of the faulted line
configuration, the io,abc is used. The next challenging issue is changes considerably compared to its pre-fault condition and
discriminating the permanent and transient fault and in fact, result in having non-zero coefficients in (22). This issue is the
proposing an ANN-based adaptive single-phase auto-reclosing key idea for the successful calculation of the fault period. The
scheme. hth voltage harmonic and its magnitude are calculated as:
2 N 1 k 2h k 2h
C. ANN-based Single-Phase Auto Reclosing Scheme Vh v k cos jv k cos
N N
(30)
; j 1
N k 0
An n-input adaptive linear neuron (ADALINE) whose output
is a linear summation of its inputs and is used for online Vh V h Re 2 V h Im 2 V h (31)
following the harmonic content of signal which is expressed as: and two proposed harmonic indices (HIs) are defined as:
N
v t Adc e t Vn sin nt n
1
(22) HI 1 5 2 100 %
hV (32)
n 1
The signal v(t) is expressed in discrete form as follows [16]:
V1
h2 h
N
v t Adc 1 kT s An sin nt k Bn cosnt k
5
(23) HI 2 100 V h (33)
n 1 h 1
The first term of (22) includes the first two terms of Taylor The above-mentioned proposed indices can discriminate
expansion of the decaying DC component, and Ts equals 2π/ωK, between transient and permanent faults (by calculating HI1) and
and t(k) is kth sampling time. Similar to (16), for harmonic also specify the type of fault (by calculating HI2. By performing
extraction, the input vector of ADALINE-ANN is chosen as: many simulations, the average value of the indices of different
X k [sin tk cos tk sin 2 tk cos2 tk types of faults and transient phenomenon has been obtained. As
(24)
sin n tk cosn tk 1 kT s ]T cases in points, the values of HI2 for different types of faults are
Thus, the W(k) is Fourier transform coefficients of the input roughly equal to the following values: single phase to ground
signal. The weighting factors shall be chosen so that the (SLG): (a-g): 8, (b-g): 9, (c-g):13.5
difference between the reference signal and ADALINE-ANN Double line to ground (DLG) (a-c-g or a-b-g): 16-17.
output is minimized. So, the Widrow-Hoff learning rule is used Line to line (LL) (a-b or a-c): 15-16.
for training based on least square error (LSE) minimization Three-phase fault: 12-12.5.
using the following weighting factor updating law [17]: Commutation Error, misfire error, and fire-through error of
ek X k VSCs: 3.5-5.5.
W k 1 W k T (25)
X k X k
The proposed protection scheme exploits the capabilities of
ANNs and TMF not only for fault detection but also for
In (25), W(k) and W(k+1) are weighting factor vectors in kth discriminating between transient and permanent faults. In fact,
and (k+1)th sampling period, respectively. When the tracking
we combined the transient detection features of TMF, and
error e(k) is brought to zero, perfect learning is achieved. Thus: classification features of ADALINE ANN for detection. So, the
y k y d k v k W0T X k (26) proposed method can help the system operator to discriminate
where W0 is equaled to: between transient and permanent faults and also improve the
W0 A1 B1 AN BN Adc Adc (27) system performance for adaptive single-phase auto-reclosing.
These capabilities make our proposed method interesting,
After obtaining the weighting factor’s vector, the harmonic
attractive, and practical. By the way, finding an analytical
content of the signal is achieved by the following equations:
solution for determining these thresholds is the subject of future
V w2n w2n 1 (28)
2 2
n researches of the authors. The training procedure of ADALINE
w2n 12 is fast and does not require so much training data and can be
n cos 1 ; n 1,2,3, , N
(29) trained in an online manner. So, the proposed TMF/ANN fault
Vn detection will not make the whole process slow and can
The proposed ADALINE-ANN-based scheme is used for the effectively and authentically detect the fault and discriminate
online estimation of harmonics in the voltage waveforms of the between transient and permanent faults and also improve the
microgrid. In contrast to the Furrier analysis method proposed system performance for adaptive single-phase auto-reclosing.
in [18], this method is more accurate, requires fewer The TMF/ANN-based fault detection only takes the locally-
calculations, and its implementation is more convenient. Also, measured signals and does not depend on the communication
the results presented in [19] reveal that the convergence time of system. The algorithm can be programmed in fast high-
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performance digital signal processing (DSP) or field- component of the instantaneous current, which is not
programmable gate array (FPGA) chips with redundant fail- considered by the dynamic phasor analysis. Based on a large
safe CPU and redundant power supply with the highest possible number of case studies, ctran = 3 has selected which results in a
reliability. However, if the ANN unit interrupts for any reason, satisfactory performance even under worst-case conditions. In
the TMF can detect the fault without discriminating transient this case, to determine whether the VSC apparent power in pre-
and permanent faults. fault and post fault conditions are the same or not, the relative
difference between the fault current during the fault in the case
V. OC/OL PROTECTION SCHEME that we have the voltage regulation by IIDER, Irs and pre-fault
current [8]:
A. Over-Load Protection Scheme
The OL protection scheme limits the output power of IIDER ReI ReI ImI ImI
rs pf
2
rs pf
2
(41)
I
unit. In the DVC-based IIDERs, the inner current control loop I rs
is not included in the control structure. The instantaneous three- When ΔI is greater than its predefined threshold value, and
phase apparent power of DER unit is given by: the abovementioned conditions for discriminating between
* *
VVSC V PCC V permanent and transient fault obtained by TMF/ADALINE-
S 3VI 3V
*
3V (34)
R f jX f R f jX f
ANN algorithm is satisfied, the overcurrent protection scheme
operates, and the CBs open the faulted line.
The maximum magnitude of voltage difference ΔVmax is
calculated from the maximum generation capacity of DER unit VI. SIMULATION RESULTS
as:
In this section, a multi-DER microgrid (Fig. 3(a)), is
S max R jX
V max (35) simulated in the MATLAB/Simulink software environment and
3V the results are verified by OPAL-RT RTDS (Fig. 3(b) and (c))
If |ΔV| > ΔVmax, the overload has occurred, and the OL [20]. The parameters of the microgrid have been obtained from
protection will be activated. In this case, the VSC output [7]. As shown in Fig. 3(a), the LCs and the rest of microgrid
voltage is adjusted so that the distance between the VSC output systems are simulated by using CPU1 and CPU2, respectively.
voltage and PCC voltage is minimized; for example, in SYRF, Here, the microgrid is simulated with the proposed hierarchical
we have: control scheme that exploits DVC-based control of [7]-[8] in its
VVSC , q V PCC , q inner voltage control loop.
VVSC , d V PCC , d V max cos tan 1 (36)
V
VSC , d V PCC , d A. Case 1: Offline Time-Domain Simulations - Performance
of HDRC- and DVC-based IIDERs for Motor Starting
VVSC , q V PCC , q
VVSC , q V PCC , q V max sin tan 1 (37) In this part of the analysis, a three-phase 132-kW, 4-pole,
V
VSC , d V PCC , d 400-V, 50-Hz induction motor with DOL starting method under
Based on the generalized fault model of IIDERs mentioned nominal load is started at t=0.8 sec in bus 2. The motor
in [3], we have: parameters are chosen the same as ones mentioned in [7]. The
ref
VVSC , d G s i ' L , d I o , d C f v o , q
1
sC f
results of the time-domain simulation for motor starting in an
autonomous microgrid for hierarchical droop-based control
(38) scheme of [11], proposed hierarchical scheme with current
VVSC , q V PCC , q
V max cos tan 1 limiting and DVC-based control strategy of [7]-[8], are
V V
VSC , d PCC , d illustrated in Figs. 4-6 for microgrid bus voltages, active and
VVSC , q G s i L , q I o , q C f v o , d
' ref 1
sC f
reactive powers, respectively. It can be observed that the
proposed CLS can minimize the transient effects of the motor
(39) starting in the microgrid. Also, as shown in Fig. 4, after a
VVSC , q V PCC , q
V max sin tan 1 momentarily droop, the voltage immediately returns to its
V V nominal value. It should be noted that as mentioned in the
VSC , d PCC , d
previous works of the authors [11], by exploiting the
B. Over-Current Protection Scheme complementary stabilizing control loop, the hierarchical droop-
The overcurrent condition is detected based on the proposed based control scheme of [11], can always show better
TMF/ANN-based fault detection method. Then, the output VSC performance in contrast with the conventional droop-based
voltage of IIDER unit should be adjusted so that we have [8]: controllers [4], [5]. On the other hand, as mentioned above, the
VVSC V PCC R f jX f
I pf HDRC schemes have less contribution to the fault compared to
(40)
c trans the DVC-based schemes, on account of their inner current
In this condition, the Ipf is obtained by PMS [7] or RBFNN- control loops. So, by making a simple analogy, there is no need
based power-flow algorithm [4] to keep the system operating to compare the conventional droop-based controllers with the
point as close as possible to the pre-fault conditions and DVC-based and hierarchical droop-based scheme of [11]
minimize microgrid transients after the fault clearance. The described in Section II and the improved one having the current
constant c > 1 is used to compensate for the decaying DC limiting scheme described in Subsection III.B.
tran
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a) b)
Controller
c)
Fig. 3 a) Schematic diagram of study microgrid system [7], and b) OPAL-RT eMEGAsim real-time digital simulator in the lab, and c) The controller-hardware-in-the-loop
real-time simulation shceme.
0.9
0.8
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
Voltage Mag. (pu)
1.05
0.95
0.9
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
Time (sec)
Fig. 4 Time-domain simulation for motor starting in islanded microgrid: microgrid voltages for a) hierarchical droop-based control scheme of [11], b) proposed
hierarchical scheme with CLS, and c) DVC-based control strategy of [7].
P1
1 P2
P3
P (pu)
0.5
0
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
0.8
0.6
P (pu)
0.4
0.2
0
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
0.8
0.6
P (pu)
0.4
0.2
0
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
Time (sec)
Fig. 5 Time-domain simulation for motor starting in islanded microgrid: microgrid active powers for a) hierarchical droop-based control scheme of [11], b) proposed
hierarchical scheme with CLS, and c) DVC-based control strategy of [7].
processing unit (CPU) No. 1 and No. 2 of the RTDS, clears after six cycles (Figs. 9-10). It is seen that after fault
respectively. In the presented CHIL scheme, the initial clearing voltage becomes stable and power-sharing continues
conditions required for the setpoints of the controllers in without any problem when HDRC scheme of [11], proposed
primary and secondary control levels are determined in a real- hierarchical scheme with current limiting and DVC-based
time manner, by doing a power-flow algorithm based on controller of [7] is used. However, using the proposed CLS can
RBFNN implemented on FPGA. result in having less voltage droop and better power-sharing
In the next study, although the experimental real-time curves.
verification can be done for other cases, here a large Also, to show the performance of the proposed fault
disturbance, namely three-phase occurs in the middle of the line detection index for discriminating permanent and transient fault
between DER1 and DER2 buses and eMEGAsim OPAL-RT that happens in the previous location, i.e., in the middle of the
RTDS is used to verify the results [20]. The initial conditions line between DER1 and DER2 buses, the system has been tested
of microgrid are obtained by the RBFNN-based power-flow for two types of three-phase faults. First, for a transient fault
algorithm of [4], [11] that has been implemented on a Xilinx (that its secondary arch flash is quenched after t = 0.76 sec),
Virtex 7 FPGA. The microgrid control system (either which is illustrated in Fig. 11(a) and the permanents fault so
hierarchical droop-based or DVC-based scheme) is simulated that the fault happens again in the middle of the line between
by the CPU1, and the rest of the microgrid is simulated by DER1 and DER2 buses with a complex impedance of Z = 5 +
CPU2 of RTDS. The Measured microgrid operational signals 10 Ω (Fig. 11(b). The results show that the proposed HI1 index
are downloaded back into MATLAB for immediate plotting can effectively discriminate permanent and transient faults and
and analysis. The fault happens at the moment t=0.8 sec, and it help the microgrid protection system.
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Fig. 6 Time-domain simulation for motor starting in islanded mode: microgrid reactive powers for a) hierarchical droop-based control scheme of [11], b) proposed
hierarchical scheme with CLS, and c) DVC-based control strategy of [7].
Fig. 7 Time-domain simulation for overload protection in islanded microgrid: active and reactive powers for a) hierarchical droop-based control scheme of [11], b)
proposed hierarchical scheme with CLS, c) DVC-based control strategy of [7], and d) variation of voltage magnitude of PCC2.
Phase A
1 Phase B
vo (pu)
Phase C
0
-1
0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35
2
iL (pu)
0
-2
0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35
2
io (pu)
0
-2
0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35
1
i'L (pu)
-1
0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35
Time (sec)
Fig. 8 Microgrid in line to line fault (a-b-g): a) output voltage, b) inductor current, c) output current and d) limited inductor currents.
1
P1
P (pu)
0.5 P2
P3
0
0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6
1
P (pu)
0.5
0
0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6
1
P (pu)
0.5
0
0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6
Time (sec)
Fig. 9 Real-time simulation for three phase fault in islanded microgrid: microgrid active powers for hierarchical droop-based control scheme of [11], proposed
hierarchical scheme with current limiting and DVC-based control strategy [7].
0
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
Voltage Mag. (pu)
1.5
0.5
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
Voltage Mag. (pu)
1.5
0.5
0
0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6
Time (sec)
Fig. 10 Real-time simulation for three phase fault in islanded microgrid: microgrid voltages for hierarchical droop-based control scheme of [11], proposed
hierarchical scheme with current limiting and DVC-based control strategy [7].
Fig. 11 Real-time simulation for three phase fault in islanded microgrid: microgrid: Value of HI1 index for a) transient fault, and b) permanent fault.
proposed TMF/ANN-based fault detection method, the OC/OL previous CLSs are not applicable in all of these
protection scheme was proposed. Finally, the fault model was reference frames.
tested for three-wire and four-wire inverter topologies, and The proposed TMF/ANN-based fault detection
various types of balanced, unbalanced SC faults. Also, the strategy not only can detect permanent and transient
performance of the proposed fault detection method and OC/OL faults but also can provide an accurate and authentic
protection scheme was verified by offline time-domain adaptive single-phase auto reclosing for microgrids.
simulations in MATLAB/Simulink environment and then, Based on a generalized fault model for HDRC- and
validated by experimental investigation through real-time digital DVC-based control strategies, and also a
simulations using OPAL-RT RTDS. Simulation results TMF/ANN-based fault detection, a generalized
effectively showed that either with or without exploiting the OC/OL protection scheme was proposed for HDRC-
proposed current limiting strategy, the current control loop of and DVC-based DERs. The previous protection
hierarchical droop-based control schemes could reduce the total strategies do not include fault detection algorithm
fault level of microgrid. Based on this fault model, special and so, cannot authentically protect the microgrids.
recommendations were proposed for OC/OL protection of
DVC-based IIDER units. Based on the obtained simulation IX. REFERENCES
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