Low voltage microgrids including sensitive loads often face unbalanced load conditions. Therefore, a compensation procedure should be carried out in order to balance and restore sensitive load’s voltage. In this paper, an effective voltage control strategy has been proposed for the autonomous operation of microgrids, under unbalanced load conditions.  The proposed strategy balances single-phase...

This paper presents a critical survey of the reference current generation (RCG) methods for harmonic and reactive power compensation for the electrical distribution systems. A critical review of the pq method, the d-q(id-iq) method, the p-q-r method, the UPF method and the FBD method are presented for the sake of comparison. In order to mitigate the deficiencies of these existing methods, the m...

Matrix converter (MC) is an AC-AC power converter topology that directly converts energy from AC source to an AC load without using any energy storage components. Therefore, the disturbances in the input voltages can propagate onto the output side and degrade or even deteriorate the performance of motor load. This paper investigates the behavior of MC and its influence to the performance of ind...

Voltage Unbalance is a common type of power quality problem. Sequence components occur during unbalance in three phase system. For this reason unbalance is assessed with respect to the sequence components present in the system. Voltage unbalance may adversely affect power system components connected to the system. In this paper, for symmetric and asymmetric faults, positive sequence voltage is ...

Voltage unbalance is a power quality problem of significant concern at the electricity distribution level. An excessive level of voltage unbalance can have serious impact on mains connected induction motors. The level of the current unbalance that is present is several times that of the level of the voltage unbalance. Such unbalance in the line currents can lead to excessive losses in the stato...

The presence of unbalanced loads in power systems creates voltage imbalances that perturb the operation sensitive loads, such as induction motors, electronics converters, and adjustable speed drives. This article presents a novel control scheme achieves accurate balance at any node an islanded ac microgrid with seamless integration existing hierarchical microgrid. A master–slave architecture is...

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY Analysis on Topology of DVR Used in Low-voltage Distribution Grid Yanlei Zhao, Chuanxiao Wang , Jingjing Yan School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255049, China [email protected] Abstract Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is a series-connected transient voltage compensation eq...

The dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is used to regulate the voltage at the load terminals from various power quality problems like sag, swell, harmonics, unbalance etc., in supply voltage. This paper presents modelling aspects of several types of Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) working against various voltage sags by simulation in PSCAD/EMTDC. The reference signal for the series connected DVR is ...