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A Novel Reconfigurable Coordinated Control for Autonomous Low Voltage DC Microgrid


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/iree.v18i1.22929

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DC microgrids with a small electrical network of locally available energy resources and distributed loads are becoming popular in real-life applications, especially in remote areas and in some specific urban applications. This, in turn demands a serious insight into the control and reliability enhancement of such systems so that the availability of secure and safe energy can be assured to the users. But the integration of intermittent renewable energy resources in dc microgrids lead to a serious concern regarding the stability of the microgrid bus voltage under continuous change in available source power and the loading conditions. While the microgrid management is still a challenge under steady state operating conditions, it becomes much complex under some emergency events like faults, failure of controllers/sources and overloads etc. This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable coordinated control architecture for a Low Voltage DC (LVDC) microgrid comprises of solar photovoltaic, fuel cell based renewable energy sources supported Energy Storage System (ESS) formed with battery and ultra-capacitor banks. The reliability of the system is ensured in the proposed reconfigurable coordinated control with three layered hierarchy viz. Emergency control layer sandwiched between the supervisory and local control layers. The proposed control strategy is implemented through a new Microgrid Bus Controller (MGBC) strengthened by an “emergency” control layer which handles the responsibility in emergency conditions to coordinate the energy sources, loads and controllers. The MGBC facilitates the fault identification and isolation to ensure the reliable operation of the healthy microgrid sections and speedy fault recovery. The MGBC is dedicated for observing the bus parameters and identify the fault location by monitoring the bus branching currents. Some of the key hardware and simulations results validating the proposed architecture along with the details of the control implementation are presented in this paper.
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Autonomous Microgrid; Coordinated Control; DC Microgrid; Reconfigurable Control

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