Modeling of Gird Connected Solar, Wind and Fuel Cell Distributed Generation Units and Power Flow Controlling System for Interfacing

dc.contributor.advisorGetachew, Bekele (PhD)
dc.contributor.authorGirma, Moges
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-17T09:54:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-28T14:26:37Z
dc.date.available2018-10-17T09:54:01Z
dc.date.available2023-11-28T14:26:37Z
dc.date.issued2018-03
dc.description.abstractThe popularity of distributed generation system is growing faster in the last few years because of their higher operating efficiency and low emission levels. Distributed generators make use of several micro-sources for their operation like photovoltaic cells, wind generator and fuel cells. All the power generated by each is connected to a micro-grid for DG application. The microgrid must use an electric inverter for power conditioning and interfacing with the power system. Basically, the micro-grid inverter has two operation modes: Standalone mode and Grid-connected mode. In this thesis, the modeling of hybrid PV-Wind-FC distributed generation systems are done. Dynamic models for the major system components, namely, wind, PV and fuel cell system modes are developed by using HOMER tool. The simulation and optimization is done based on climatic data sources and economics of the power components in which the Net Present Cost (NPC) has to be minimized to have economically feasible system. Moreover, other parameters like capacity shortage, renewable fraction, excess electricity and Cost of Energy (COE) are also considered to check the technical capability so as to select the best system. HOMER simulation result displays the most economical feasible system sorted by NPC from top to down, the prime system ranked first has renewable fraction of 15 unit wind turbines with 100kW each rating power, 1000kW photovoltaic panel, 500kW fuel cell and 500kW converter are part of the system to fulfill the required 1.3832MW estimated load demand. Then, a simulation model for the proposed hybrid power system is developed by using Matlab/Simulink environment. This is done by creating a subsystem and masked block sets of the major dynamic component models and then cascading in to a single aggregate model. The final tasks are control system design and analysis of inverter interfaced micro-grid distributed generations with existing utility- grid system. The analysis of controller is done using the Matlab M-file. For both operation modes, a multi-loop controller is used. The voltage differential feedback inner loop is embedded in the outer voltage loop also an output voltage decoupling and current decoupling are implemented by using the output voltage feedback. The proposed control scheme possess very fast dynamic response at load step change and can also achieve good steady state performance at both linear and nonlinear loads.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/12788
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAAUen_US
dc.subjectDistributed Generationen_US
dc.subjectStandalone Operation Modeen_US
dc.subjectGirds Connected Operation Modeen_US
dc.subjectMicro-Gird Systemen_US
dc.subjectInverter Interfaced Systemen_US
dc.subjectCost Optimizationen_US
dc.titleModeling of Gird Connected Solar, Wind and Fuel Cell Distributed Generation Units and Power Flow Controlling System for Interfacingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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