Title : 
Operation analysis of stand-alone DC micro-grid with coordinated droop control
         
        
            Author : 
Hyun-Jun Kim ; Tae-Hee Han ; Byung-Moon Han
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. Of Electr. Eng., Myongji Univ., Yongin, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper introduces a new operation method with coordinated droop control for stand-alone DC micro-grid. The proposed coordinated droop control can offer improvement of system reliability and efficiency for the stand-alone DC micro-grid, which is composed of DGs(distributed generations) and battery with SOC(state of charge) management system. The operation of stand-alone DC micro-grid with proposed control was analyzed with computer simulation. Based on simulation results, a 3kW hardware simulator was built and tested to analyze the performance of proposed system. The developed simulation model and hardware simulator can be utilized to design the actual stand-alone DC micro-grid and to analyze its performance.
         
        
            Keywords : 
battery management systems; battery storage plants; control engineering computing; distributed power generation; power engineering computing; power generation control; power generation reliability; DG; SOC management system; battery management system; computer simulation; coordinated droop control; distributed generations; hardware simulator; operation analysis; power 3 kW; simulation model; stand-alone DC microgrid efficiency; state-of-charge; system reliability; Analytical models; DC-DC power converters; EMTDC; Voltage control; BES(battery energy storage); DG(distributed generation); MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking); SOC(state of charge) management; autonomous control; droop control; stand-alone DC micro-grid;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
ECCE Asia Downunder (ECCE Asia), 2013 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Melbourne, VIC
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-0483-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECCE-Asia.2013.6579176