Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation

Four-wire microgrids (MGs) and distribution systems are inherently unbalanced with the presence of negative and zero sequence components in voltages and currents. In small autonomous systems, the imbalance, in addition to the harmonic distortion produced by nonlinear loads, can significantly affect...

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Main Authors: Burgos-Mellado, Claudio, Hernández-Carimán, Carlos, Cardenas, Roberto, Saez, Doris, Sumner, M., Costabeber, Alessando, Morales, Helmo
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author Burgos-Mellado, Claudio
Hernández-Carimán, Carlos
Cardenas, Roberto
Saez, Doris
Sumner, M.
Costabeber, Alessando
Morales, Helmo
author_facet Burgos-Mellado, Claudio
Hernández-Carimán, Carlos
Cardenas, Roberto
Saez, Doris
Sumner, M.
Costabeber, Alessando
Morales, Helmo
author_sort Burgos-Mellado, Claudio
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
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description Four-wire microgrids (MGs) and distribution systems are inherently unbalanced with the presence of negative and zero sequence components in voltages and currents. In small autonomous systems, the imbalance, in addition to the harmonic distortion produced by nonlinear loads, can significantly affect the power quality, loadability, and stability of the system. Furthermore, in isolated networks with significant generation from intermittent renewable energy sources, the stiffness of the system is reduced and this could amplify the effects of imbalance on the stability and power quality. To mitigate some of these problems, a novel methodology based on the application of a four-leg active power filter is proposed in this paper. The control of the compensator is based on the conservative power theory augmented by resonant controllers. The behavior of the proposed system is demonstrated using an experimental prototype deployed in a laboratory scale MG.
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spelling nottingham-439452020-05-04T19:56:52Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43945/ Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation Burgos-Mellado, Claudio Hernández-Carimán, Carlos Cardenas, Roberto Saez, Doris Sumner, M. Costabeber, Alessando Morales, Helmo Four-wire microgrids (MGs) and distribution systems are inherently unbalanced with the presence of negative and zero sequence components in voltages and currents. In small autonomous systems, the imbalance, in addition to the harmonic distortion produced by nonlinear loads, can significantly affect the power quality, loadability, and stability of the system. Furthermore, in isolated networks with significant generation from intermittent renewable energy sources, the stiffness of the system is reduced and this could amplify the effects of imbalance on the stability and power quality. To mitigate some of these problems, a novel methodology based on the application of a four-leg active power filter is proposed in this paper. The control of the compensator is based on the conservative power theory augmented by resonant controllers. The behavior of the proposed system is demonstrated using an experimental prototype deployed in a laboratory scale MG. IEEE 2017-06 Article PeerReviewed Burgos-Mellado, Claudio, Hernández-Carimán, Carlos, Cardenas, Roberto, Saez, Doris, Sumner, M., Costabeber, Alessando and Morales, Helmo (2017) Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 5 (2). pp. 747-759. ISSN 2168-6785 Active power filter conservative power theory resonant control microgrids imbalance harmonic distortion http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7756414/ doi:10.1109/JESTPE.2016.2633064 doi:10.1109/JESTPE.2016.2633064
spellingShingle Active power filter
conservative power theory
resonant control
microgrids
imbalance
harmonic distortion
Burgos-Mellado, Claudio
Hernández-Carimán, Carlos
Cardenas, Roberto
Saez, Doris
Sumner, M.
Costabeber, Alessando
Morales, Helmo
Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation
title Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation
title_full Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation
title_fullStr Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation
title_full_unstemmed Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation
title_short Experimental evaluation of a CPT-based 4-leg active power compensator For distributed generation
title_sort experimental evaluation of a cpt-based 4-leg active power compensator for distributed generation
topic Active power filter
conservative power theory
resonant control
microgrids
imbalance
harmonic distortion
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43945/
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