Design and Implementation of a Control System for a Microgrid involving a Fuel Cell Power Module

Author

Wang, Zhutian ; Huang, Xinhong ; Jiang, Jin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON

fYear

2007

fDate

25-26 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

212

Abstract

Distributed generation (DG) and microgrid technologies can be used to moderate the stress in electricity demand increase that the main stream utility grid is facing. In this paper, a control and monitoring system for an alternative energy based microgrid is designed using LabVIEW programming language. A prototype microgrid that consists of a PEM fuel cell power module and two synchronous generators is proposed in the study. The control system relies on a novel load- voltage control scheme for load distribution among these three energy sources. The proposed control system is implemented for the proposed microgrid.

Keywords

condition monitoring; control system synthesis; distributed power generation; load regulation; power distribution control; power engineering computing; programming languages; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; synchronous generators; voltage control; LabVIEW programming language; PEM fuel cell; distributed generation; electricity demand; fuel cell power module; load distribution; load- voltage control scheme; microgrid; stream utility grid; synchronous generators; Computer languages; Control systems; Distributed control; Fuel cells; Monitoring; Multichip modules; Prototypes; Stress; Synchronous generators; Voltage control; Distributed Generation; LabVIEW; Microgrid; Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Power Conference, 2007. EPC 2007. IEEE Canada

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1444-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1445-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPC.2007.4520331

Filename

4520331