A Comparison Between Passive Islanding Detection Methods in Grid Integrated Photovoltaic System

Author(s):  
Isha Chandra ◽  
Mahiraj Singh Rawat
2013 ◽  
Vol 748 ◽  
pp. 453-456
Author(s):  
Chen Xin Li ◽  
Qi Ping Yuan

Islanding detection is a very essential function for a photovoltaic grid-connected system. Islanding phenomenons not only damage to equipment, but also endanger to the safety of the maintenance personnel. Passive islanding detection methods that use alone have considerable non-detection zone (NDZ); active islanding detection methods that use alone are that join disturbance to system, but the disturbance will cause system instability [1]. In this paper, an over/under voltage and over/under frequency detection method combines with an improved active power perturbation detection method are proposed. The photovoltaic system can be reduced non-detection zone (NDZ) with improved the power quality and reduced the total harmonic distortion (THD) through this method.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 4054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Son Tran ◽  
Duc Tuyen Nguyen ◽  
Goro FUJITA

Islanding phenomenon is one of the consequences of the emergence and development of microgrids in the power system. Injected signal cancellation is a common problem in a multi- distributed generation that has a significant influence on active islanding detection methods. In this study, this issue was analyzed by injecting a perturbation signal in the multi-photovoltaic system. Furthermore, the promising solution to eliminate injected signal cancellation was proposed in this paper. The solution was validated through mathematical explanations and simulation results.


2012 ◽  
Vol 614-615 ◽  
pp. 815-818
Author(s):  
Xue Song Zhou ◽  
Jia Rui Wu ◽  
You Jie Ma

With the increasing of the capacity of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) power system, islanding detection becomes more prominent and significant. At present, islanding detection methods used in grid-connected photovoltaic system can be divided into passive detection methods and active detection methods these two categories, which can also be divided into a variety of methods. This paper shows a comprehensive review of islanding detection methods, classifies the methods of islanding detection, analyzes the principles and characteristics of various islanding detection methods, indicates their appropriate situations, and pointes out the prospect of islanding detection methods. In practical applications, according to the actual situation, selects one or more islanding detection methods can attain better detection effect.


2014 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Yoshida ◽  
Hirokazu Suzuki ◽  
Koji Fujiwara ◽  
Yoshiyuki Ishihara

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manop Yingram ◽  
Suttichai Premrudeepreechacharn

The mainly used local islanding detection methods may be classified as active and passive methods. Passive methods do not perturb the system but they have larger nondetection zones, whereas active methods have smaller nondetection zones but they perturb the system. In this paper, a new hybrid method is proposed to solve this problem. An over/undervoltage (passive method) has been used to initiate an undervoltage shift (active method), which changes the undervoltage shift of inverter, when the passive method cannot have a clear discrimination between islanding and other events in the system. Simulation results on MATLAB/SIMULINK show that over/undervoltage and undervoltage shifts of hybrid islanding detection method are very effective because they can determine anti-islanding condition very fast.ΔP/P>38.41% could determine anti-islanding condition within 0.04 s;ΔP/P<-24.39% could determine anti-islanding condition within 0.04 s;-24.39%≤ΔP/P≤ 38.41% could determine anti-islanding condition within 0.08 s. This method perturbed the system, only in the case of-24.39% ≤ΔP/P ≤38.41% at which the control system of inverter injected a signal of undervoltage shift as necessary to check if the occurrence condition was an islanding condition or not.


Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 582
Author(s):  
Holger Behrends ◽  
Dietmar Millinger ◽  
Werner Weihs-Sedivy ◽  
Anže Javornik ◽  
Gerold Roolfs ◽  
...  

Faults and unintended conditions in grid-connected photovoltaic systems often cause a change of the residual current. This article describes a novel machine learning based approach to detecting anomalies in the residual current of a photovoltaic system. It can be used to detect faults or critical states at an early stage and extends conventional threshold-based detection methods. For this study, a power-hardware-in-the-loop approach was carried out, in which typical faults have been injected under ideal and realistic operating conditions. The investigation shows that faults in a photovoltaic converter system cause a unique behaviour of the residual current and fault patterns can be detected and identified by using pattern recognition and variational autoencoder machine learning algorithms. In this context, it was found that the residual current is not only affected by malfunctions of the system, but also by volatile external influences. One of the main challenges here is to separate the regular residual currents caused by the interferences from those caused by faults. Compared to conventional methods, which respond to absolute changes in residual current, the two machine learning models detect faults that do not affect the absolute value of the residual current.


Islanding detection is a necessary function for grid connected distributed generators. Usually, islanding detection methods can be classified as two catalogues: remote detecting methods and local detecting methods. Most of them have limitation and defects when they are applied in photovoltaic power stations. Recently synchronous phasor measuring units (PMU) is proposed to be applied for islanding detecting. Although the islanding detection method is supposed to be applied for traditional bulk power systems, it is also suitable for renewable generation power plants. To do this islanding detection will be implemented on central management unit of photovoltaic power station instead of on grid-tied inverters as traditionally. In implementing, the criteria of this method and the threshold of algorithm are needed to be optimized. This paper develops a test device which can optimize PMU-based islanding detection technology to validate the proposed islanding detection method applying in PV station. Then using simulation to discuss how to set a reasonable threshold for the researched islanding detection method applied in PV stations. Finally the paper provides a platform for the algorithm optimization.


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