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An adaptive droop control method for low voltage DC microgrids

Khorsandi, A ; Sharif University of technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/PEDSTC.2014.6799349
  3. Abstract:
  4. DC microgrids (MGs) are becoming popular as effective means to integrate different energy resources. Conventionally, the droop control is adopted as a decentralized control method for power sharing in DC MGs. However, current sharing accuracy or voltage regulation deteriorates due to the effects of line impedances. In this paper, a new adaptive control strategy is proposed for DC MGs. In low load conditions, the output currents of the DGs are far from their maximum acceptable limits. Therefore, current sharing accuracy is not important. As load increases, the output currents of the DGs approach their maximum acceptable limits. Therefore, at high load conditions, accurate current sharing is necessary. In the proposed method, with increasing the load, the equivalent droop gains are automatically increased to attain more accurate current sharing. Simulation results are provided to verify the validity and effectiveness of the proposed method
  5. Keywords:
  6. Distributed generation ; Distributed power generation ; Energy resources ; Voltage regulators ; Acceptable limit ; Adaptive control strategy ; Current-sharing ; Dc micro-grid ; Droop control method ; Droop controllers ; Line impedance ; Load sharing ; Power electronics
  7. Source: PEDSTC 2014 - 5th Annual International Power Electronics, Drive Systems and Technologies Conference ; December , 2014 , p. 84-89
  8. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6948266