Power Quality Improvement for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Panels Using Direct Power Control

This chapter displays a control strategy for a photovoltaic system (PV) linked to the network with two phases of a PWM converter, where the first phase is a DC-DC converter linked among the photovoltaic source and the DC-AC converter. The second phase is a DC-AC converter linked to the grid. The maximum power point (MPP) is tracked by DC-DC converter, which increases the DC bus voltage. The P&O (perturbation and observation) technique is utilized as a direct current (DC-DC) converter controller to make the PV arrays work at greatest value of power under changing weather conditions. The DC-AC converter transfers the maximum power extracted from the PV cell into the grid. To improve the energy quality produced by the photovoltaic field other than the performance of the pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter, direct power control (DPC) is used to achieve these improvements. The simulation results showed a good performance of the suggested controller. Decoupled power control is achieved successfully, and a good power quality with low harmonic distortion rate (THD) is obtained.

Performance evaluation of different configurations of system with DSTATCOM using proposed Icos⁡ϕ technique

The proposed Icos⁡ϕ control technique has been applied for power quality improvement using different configurations of system with distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM). Modeling, design and control of DSTATCOM are analysed in detial. Three phase reference current are extracted with this technique. The proposed technique has been used for power factor enhancement, voltage regulation, harmonic suppression and load balancing under dynamic condition with non-linear load. The proposed control is very effective for three different configurations of system with DSTATCOM for power quality improvement. Results for each configuration of system with DSTATCOM are simulated using MATLAB/Simulink sim power tool box. For teaching the power quality course, these can also be helpful.

A simulation analysis of PV powered Inc-Cond MPPT based hybrid filter for power quality improvement

This paper proposed a Transformer less Hybrid Active Filter that upgrade the power quality in single-stage frameworks with steady renewable Photo Voltaic. It strengthens basic loads and carrying on as high-consonant impedance that does not below the critical loads. Manages energy management and power quality issues identified with electric transportation and concentrate on enhancing the electric vehicle load connected to grid. The control technique was intended to anticipation of current harmonic distortions with the nonlinear loads to control the flow of utility with no standard massive and expensive transformer. Power factor alongside AC side will likewise kept up to some esteem and furthermore dispense with the voltage distortions at the Common coupling point.

A Review on Power Electronics Technologies for Power Quality Improvement

Nowadays, new challenges arise relating to the compensation of power quality problems, where the introduction of innovative solutions based on power electronics is of paramount importance. The evolution from conventional electrical power grids to smart grids requires the use of a large number of power electronics converters, indispensable for the integration of key technologies, such as renewable energies, electric mobility and energy storage systems, which adds importance to power quality issues. Addressing these topics, this paper presents an extensive review on power electronics technologies applied to power quality improvement, highlighting, and explaining the main phenomena associated with the occurrence of power quality problems in smart grids, their cause and effects for different activity sectors, and the main power electronics topologies for each technological solution. More specifically, the paper presents a review and classification of the main power quality problems and the respective context with the standards, a review of power quality problems related to the power production from renewables, the contextualization with solid-state transformers, electric mobility and electrical railway systems, a review of power electronics solutions to compensate the main power quality problems, as well as power electronics solutions to guarantee high levels of power quality. Relevant experimental results and exemplificative developed power electronics prototypes are also presented throughout the paper.