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Abstract
This paper aimed to evaluate the use of photovoltaic-battery storage systems to supply electric power
in the distribution grid through a multilevel inverter. In our setting, electricity is generated from two
PV generators and is used to supply the demand from grid. Excess electricity generated from the PV
can be stored in two battery storage systems to be used later on. Each battery storage system is
connected to each capacitor of the DC link of a three level diode clamped inverter which is connected
to the grid by a traditional three phase transformer. The proposed control has a hierarchical structure
with both a grid side control level to regulate the power and the current injected to the grid and two
input side regulation units. The system operator controls the power production of the two PV
generators by sending out reference power signals to each input side regulation unit, the input side
regulation units regulate the voltage of each capacitor of the DC link, control the voltage and the state
of charge of each battery storage system.
Keywords
Photovoltaic generator, MPPT, Battery storage, 3 level DCI, Space vector modulation,
P-Q control .
I.
Introduction
Nowadays, renewable energies are considered as the mean to reduce fuel consumption and air
pollution. But, the stochastic variations of the climatic conditions can induce several
constraints in the electrical power generation system . Energy fluctuations can have a
significant effect on the design and performances of the individual photovoltaic systems, as well as
on the quality of the power delivered to the network and to the consumers.
In grid-connected PV systems (GCPVs) [1-2]. The generated PV power is fed to the grid, or it supplies
the linear and nonlinear loads connected at the ac side. A fair amount of literature [3- 4] has dealt with
the operation of hybrid systems. In some hybrid systems [5-6] , battery storage system is used to
compensate the mismatch between the generation and demand. Many grid-connected photovoltaic
systems use a three phase inverter to perform this connection [7-9]. However, the classical threephase inverter is very limited concerning its output voltage levels. It only allows obtaining three
phase-to phase output voltage levels. To overcome this problem, multilevel inverters have been
proposed. There are several attractive features that make this kind of power converters very
interesting for the power industry, such as, reduced current and voltage harmonics on the ac
side, high voltage capability and low dv/dt. The topology, modulation strategy and performance of
these power converters have been extensively studied over the last decades. In this way several
multilevel topologies have been proposed [10-12]. The most used are the cascaded H-bridge inverter,
the neutral point clamped, and the flying capacitor. Due to this features many multilevel converters
have been used for grid connected photovoltaic systems [13-15]. In addition to the above attractive
features of the multilevel inverters, in medium-power and high-power applications safety and
robustness are also important. One of the interesting multilevel topologies is the three -level
diode clamped inverter topology [16].Beside multilevel inverters various pulse width modulation
(PWM) techniques have been also developed [17-20]. Space vector modulation (SVM)
technique is one of the most popular techniques gained interest recently. As a cheaper
alternative, this paper investigates the output quality of multilevel inverter to connect a photovoltaicbattery storage system to the grid.
In this paper, we want to evaluate the use of photovoltaic-battery storage systems to supply electric
power in the distribution grid, to investigate the energy output quality of multilevel inverters to
interface the PV and battery storage systems with the grid and to control the active and reactive power
injected to the grid. The proposed control has a hierarchical structure with both a grid side control
level to regulate the power and the current injected to the grid and input side regulation units. The
system operator controls the power production of the two PV generators by sending out reference
power signals to each input side regulation unit, the input side regulation units regulate the voltage of
each capacitor of the DC link, regulate the voltage and the state of charge of each battery storage
system.
The paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we present the global model and control of our
system: mathematical model of the photovoltaic generator, Maximum Power Point Tracker,
model of battery bank, model and control of the three level diode clamped inverter, control of the
global system. Then, in section 3 we present the simulation results and we terminate by a
conclusion in section 4.
II.
Fig. 1 shows the configuration of the grid-connected PV battery storage system, which consists of two
PV generators , two DC/DC converters for MPPT, two battery banks connected to the DC link by
two bidirectional DC-DC converters and the three level diode clamped inverter connected to the grid
through a traditional three phase transformer.
DC Bus
Gpv1
Gpv2
DC/DC
Converter
MPPT
DC/DC
Converter
MPPT
Bs1
Battery Bank
Converter
Bs2
Battery Bank
Converter
Input side
regulation unit 1
P ref1
Rt, Lt
Udc1
G
R
I
D
Three
level
Udc2
DCI
Input side
regulation unit 2
Pg ref
Qg ref
P ref2
Pg ref
System operators
Ppv glob
The single diode equivalent circuit as shown in Fig. 2 is the most commonly used model for large PV
generators. Starting from the widely known photovoltaic cell electrical equivalent circuit, an
equivalent model for a more powerful PVG made of an (Ns x Np) array of PV cells, is established
[21].
Iph
Rs
Id
Rsh
Fig. 2:
Charge
The current source is the light generated current witch is directly proportional to the solar irradiation.
The series and the shunt resistances represent a voltage loss on the way to the external contacts and the
leakage current in the shunt path respectively. The mathematical model witch relates the output
current to the output voltage is given by the following expression:
Where:
: the photo-current, : the saturation current of diode, m : ideality factor,
and
:
series and parallel resistance, T : junction temperature, K : Boltzmann constant, q : electron charge.
In general, for a PVG involving an array of Ns cell connected in series and Np in parallel, its output
voltage current relation may be deduced from the basic cell equation 2 as follows.
SOC model
Capacity
model
SOC
Voltage
model
Gassing current
Loss model
Fig. 3:
The main reaction current of the battery bank can be expressed as:
Where:
: Main battery reaction current (A),
: External battery current (A),
: Battery
gassing current (A).
The capacity model of the battery does not limit the charge or discharge current. Operation of the
system with excessive charge or discharge currents has to be prevented by the selection of
appropriately sized components and the implementation of a suitable control strategy. The actual
battery capacity can be determined as:
Where:
: Actual battery capacity (Ah)
: Initial battery capacity (Ah)
The state-of-charge can be calculated by referring the actual capacity to the rated capacity of the
battery:
The presented voltage model of the battery is based on the Expanded Kinetic Battery Model, which
has been presented in [23].
The voltage model considers that the battery terminal voltage depends on the following factors:
- Battery state-of-charge;
- Internal battery resistance;
- Magnitude and direction of battery current.
The voltage of a string of batteries is given by multiplying the battery voltage with the number of 12
Volt batteries in series:
Where:
u c1
T11
T21
T31
T12
T22
T32
T13
T23
T33
T14
T24
T34
C1
UC
u c2
C2
VA
VC
VB
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
-Uc/2
0
Uc/2
unknown
Etat
N
O
P
-
As indicated in table 1, each leg of the inverter can have three possible switching states
,O N.
Fig. 5 shows the space vector diagram of the three level inverter. The output voltage space vector is
identified by combination of switching states
of the three legs. Since three kinds of switching
states exist in each leg, three level inverter has
switching states [16].
O PN
NPN
OPO
NON
NPO
NPP
OPP
NOO
NNO
NNP
OOP
NO P
PPN
PPO
OON
PO N
O NP
POP
ONO
PNN
PNO
PNP
4
5
6
Power
Current
Multilevel
Controller
Controller
control
Reference currents (
powers (
The unity power factor is obtained simply by setting the reactive power reference null. We can also
generate or absorb (
).
II.5.1.2. Current control
The vector current control in Park reference frame is carried out by using the synchronized reference
with the grid voltage (Fig. 7). The electric equations of the filter (
) connected to the grid are
given bellow:
Vsd
Vt d_ref
+
Cid
vb d_ref
s.Lt
Isd
Isq
s.Lt
Vt q_ref
-+
It d_ref
Ci q
vb q_ref
-+
It q_ref
Vsq
Decoupling
Compensation
Corrector
Battery bank
DC
V bat
DC
I bat
P bat ref
D bat
PI
Power informations
No
Yes
P pvi P ref i
Yes
Yes
No
Excess power
inj ected to
grid
No
SB charge
by PV
power
SB charge
by excess
power
inject to grid PV
power and deficient
power from SB
III.
Results simulation
3500
1.2
Global PV power
3000
PV power (W)
Irradiance (KW/m 2)
1.4
1
0.8
0.6
2500
2000
1500
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
500
0.2
1000
Battery bank 2 Power
Battery bank 1 power
500
0
-500
-1000
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
235
0.2
Fig. 14:
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
29
28.5
SOC of battery bank 1
SOCi of battery bank 2
28
27.5
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
245
230
0.6
29.5
240
0.4
Power of Gpv2
1000
0.4
Power of Gpv1
240.1
240.05
240
239.95
Udc1
239.9
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
Udc 2
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
500
0
-500
0
0.05
0.1
Time (s)
0.15
0.2
Mag (% of Fundamental)
500
0
-500
0
0.05
0.1
Time (s)
0.15
0.2
10
Mag (% of Fundamental)
3000
2000
1000
0
20
0.2
0.4
0.6
Fig. 18:
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
Fig. 17:
30
35
40
THD analysis.
2
0
-2
-4
Grid reactive power
Reference reactive power
-6
-8
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
Time (s)
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
1
10
10
15
20
25
30
35
Harmonic order d component current
q component current
-5
-10
40
4000
15
20
25
Harmonic order
5
0
-5
-10
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
1.4
1.6
1.8
-5
0
0.5
1
Time (s)
1.5
Mag (% of Fundamental)
5
0
-5
1.5
0.5
0.5
1
Time (s)
1.5
Fig. 22:
Grid current phase 1 (A).
Fundamental (50Hz) = 6.455 A , THD= 2.66%
10
15
20
25
Harmonic order
30
35
40
2001.5
400
Grid voltage
Grid current*40
Mag (% of Fundamental)
2
400
-200
0.5
-400
0.2
0.4
0.6
10
0.8
1
1.2
Time (s)
15
20
1.4
25
1.6
30
1.8
35
200
100
0
-100
-200
-300
-400
0.8
Grid voltage
Grid current*40
300
0.85
0.9
0.95
1
Time (s)
1.05
1.1
1.15
1.2
40
Harmonic order
Fig. 24: Grid current (A)
and grid voltage (V) of phase 1. Fig.25: Zoom of grid current, voltage.
These simulation results improve the validity of the proposed control strategy for the grid PV/battery
storage systems. The results show that it is possible to inject to the grid a fixed power whatever solar
irradiance and temperature condition as shown in Fig. 18 and 19. The DC link voltage is maintained
constant (Fig. 16), the multilevel inverter gives a good quality energy (Fig. 16 and Fig. 17). In Fig.23,
the current injected into the grid has a good quality (THD= 2.66 %).
IV.
Conclusion
This paper proposed the study and the control of photovoltaic-Battery storage grid connected system,
the use of a three level DCI with his simplified space vector modulation as a grid interface gives a
good results in term of THD and power quality, also, the aim was in this work to inject to the grid a
fixed power whatever solar irradiance and temperature condition. The results obtained from this
performance analysis confirm that the control strategy adopted achieves the specified performance
objectives.
TABLE III System parameters
Photovoltaic array
Pmax
150
Maximal power
Vop
Iop
34.5
4.35
V
A
Optimal voltage
Optimal current
Ns
Np
10
0
Udc
480
Rt
Lt
3
0,05
Vs
f
380
50
Grid
V
Hz
Battery bank
118
Ah
120
Ah
130
Ah
20
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