Power Flow Control of a Single Distributed Generation Unit


Min Dai, M.N. Marwali, Jin-Woo Jung and A. Keyhani
Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH, USA ;

This paper appears in : IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 
Date: January 2008  


Abstract:
This research addresses power flow control problem of a grid-connected inverter in distributed generation applications. A real and reactive power control solution is proposed on the basis of an existing voltage control strategy developed for island operations. The power control solution takes advantage of a newly designed system parameter identification method and a nonlinear feedforward algorithm, both of which are based on Newton-Raphson iteration method and implemented in real time. The proposed power control solution also performs grid-line current conditioning and yields harmonic free grid-line current. A phase locked loop based algorithm is developed as a part of the solution to handle possible harmonic distorted grid-line voltage and maintain harmonic free line current. The effectiveness of the proposed techniques is demonstrated by both simulation and experimental results.