A state of the art review of control techniques for power electronics converter based distributed generation systems in different modes of operation

Author

Ahmed, K.H. ; Massoud, Ahmed Mohamed ; Adam, Grain Philip ; Zobaa, A.F.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1042

Lastpage

1047

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the state of the art techniques in inverter-based distribution generation systems. Different control techniques and classification of inverter modules operated in grid and islanded modes are investigated. The merits and drawbacks of each technique are presented. The operation of the inverter is classified into, single and parallel operation. Parallel operation is used to increase the reliability but some techniques require communications links between the inverter modules. The problem of circulation current between different parallel inverters is investigated.

Keywords

distributed power generation; power control; power convertors; power distribution control; power distribution reliability; power grids; circulation current problem; communication link; inverter-based distribution generation system; islanded mode; power electronics converter; power grid; reliability; Control systems; Current control; Frequency control; Inverters; Reactive power; Reliability; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRERA.2013.6749906

Filename

6749906