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Presenter: Dr. Ehab Shoubaki, Ph.DPostdoctoral Fellow, Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC)UNC Charlotte, NC, USAeshoubak@uncc.edu EPIC.UNCC.EDU
Analysis and Mitigation of Harmonic Currents due to Clustered Distributed Generation on the Low Voltage Network
Authors: Ehab Shoubaki, Somasundaram Essakiappan, Johan Enslin
The authors wish to acknowledge and thank Duke Energy for their financial support to this project.Slide2
Limitations of Grid Connected Inverter certification:Industry Reference standards:
“IEEE Standard for Conformance Test Procedures for Equipment Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electric Power Systems
”, IEEE 1547.1“Inverters, Converters, Controllers and Interconnection System Equipment for Use with Distributed Energy Resources”, UL
1741
Partially concerned with limiting Harmonic currents injected into the grid. Tested with a
stiff, pure sinewave AC source.
Analogy
:
An inverted
pendulum control
apparatus need not be tested on a movable (non-stiff) table
.
Common sense ?
In reality:
Myriad resonance modalities will manifest between DG
PV inverters
and the grid
which is neither stiff or a pure
sinewave. But cost pressures push industry to design “for the tests”.
Therefor problems tend to become more apparent as clustering in close proximity occurs.Slide3
Dynamic Model of standard two stage inverter with reservoir DC capacitance:
High Fidelity Reference current
Controller
Output current Sensing
Voltage at point of common coupling
Output Filter Inductance
DC-Link Voltage
Circuit modelSlide4
Essential Dynamics of VAR capable two stage grid tied PV inverter.Full-bridge on one side of output filter inductance. Modulates DC-Link voltage into an AC waveform. Grid (with variable stiffness) on other side.Controller actuates SPWM duty cycle to balance required output current in output inductor.Output inductor tends to “run-away”. So fast high bandwidth OCR loop required to steer current.But BW cannot be infinite , and dwindles at higher harmonics. i.e. Controller cannot catch up with preexisting high frequency distortion on the Grid voltage.
Grid Voltage feedforward is straightforward solution, but cannot be perfect due to cost and/or technological limitations at higher harmonics. Slide5
Lumped Circuit Model of a Single Inverter (Including Feedforward)
Point of common coupling feed
forwad
Inverter current controller impedance
Output Filter CapacitanceSlide6
Output impedance of single and clustered DG’s With Feed Forward
Limited BW of voltage sensing
Single DG
Clustered DG’s
(up to 5000 on a single LV network)
Possibility of Hick-up ScenarioSlide7
What about Hick-ups due to small signal instability ?
Nyquist Diagram for 800 DGs , unstable
Stability very much depends on Magnitude of
Zline
/
ZtotalSlide8
Steady state oscillations due to stiff distortion from the primary circuit and/or current reference
Voltage and Current divider effect
From Grid center to PCC
Total AdmittanceSlide9
Mitigation ~ What can be done ?Provide extra damping (Stability):Reduce Steady State oscillations (Harmonics):Virtual RC damping branch.Virtual negative capacitance (naturally only manifests within bandwidth of OCR loop).
NOTE : Too much can cause instability. General guidelines:
Applied negative capacitance should only compensate for the output filter capacitance.Implement virtual RC branch with corner frequency above line but within the OCR bandwidth.Goal is to load harmonic currents AND diminish oscillations.Slide10
Validation (Simulation: MATLAB)
24 DG’s, No mitigation
Negative capacitance allows for 177 DG’s
Negative Capacitance and damping : 708 DG’sSlide11
ConclusionsCertification with a Stiff Sinewave source not adequate for high penetration scenarios.Disturbance and resonance from/with grid cannot be cost effectively canceled at high frequencies through feedforward voltage. Analysis suggests some mitigation techniques to increase stability and reduce harmonic distortion with increased clustering.Microgeneration on the Low voltage network is becoming ever so popular and the need for detailed dynamic analysis is ever present.